Quotes About Value

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.

I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.

I really believe that, as filmmakers, we have a duty, which is, if we're asking people to pay a premium price for a 3D ticket, we have a duty to deliver a premium product.

I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going to buy a T-shirt, and you end up spending close to $100 a night, what with gas in the car and anything else to get you in the spirit of things, I just think that people deserve their money's worth.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

People paid money for tickets to see us and be entertained by us, and we've never forgotten that. Anything after that was a bonus.

I don't think profit margins are great when you're giving away free tickets!

My average fan works for about $20 per hour, if they are lucky enough to have a job. And then factoring in insurance, taxes and such, they're maybe bringing home $15 per hour. If my tickets are just under $30, it took them about two hours of their life to make the money to come see my show. Why shouldn't I give them two hours too?

I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.

We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

It's a business with the coaches. It's a business with the front office. So I don't get too tied up if I'm appreciated by them. Because at the end of the day, my teammates are who I play for.

Owning my identity... ties into my value of dignity.

A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no matter how polished.

Time demonstrates that Paradise is not cheap and that Hell is not futile.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Life, he wrote, "is a dangerous situation." It is the frailty of life that makes it precious;

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars etc., is sure to be noticed. Søren Kierkegaard

How we need more "homemakers" so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.