Quotes About Value

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you're gone.

Sure, negotiation techniques and assertiveness skills can easily be learned by taking courses or reading books. But the truth is, if you're going to command more—whether it's a higher fee, more flexible hours, or a corner office—you have to truly believe you're worth it. People will always respond far more to your "vibes" than your words.

We women have got to stop devaluing ourselves and demand what we're worth.

I have a lot to contribute and the company needs to compensate me appropriately or I'll go elsewhere,

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Because one man is a fool, is that reason why his friend ... should not be wise? Because one man throws away a diamond, why his comrade should not pick it up and wear it on his finger?

If you desire something of real value -- tell no one. You will find it maybe when the eyes of Destiny are turned the other way.

Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.

The cultural value that the purpose of government is to serve and bring benefit to the people as a whole will likely serve as the single greatest deterrent against corruption in government.

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

Less than I want. More than I deserve.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.

My love is now full grown, The infant at its birth Could never know, I own One quarter of your worth: But having learnt to bless Your virtues o'er and o'er, I can never love you less, I can never love you more!

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.