Quotes About Value

In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.

Bir yemeÄŸe ne kadar çok para verirseniz o kadar çok ter ve tükürük yemek zorunda kal?rs?n?z.

You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.

We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue.

All people who work with their hands are party invisible, and the more important the work they do, the more invisible they are.

You do not escape from money merely by being moneyless

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.

Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower? "She's beautiful," he murmured. "She's a meter across the hips, easily," said Julia. "That is her style of beauty," said Winston.

Kobbi, thou bringest to me a rare thought. A new light gleamed in Bansir's eyes. It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend

a man's  wealth is not   in the purse he carries.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it.

A bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom; if thou hadst thy choice, which wouldst thou choose?

Cada um tem seu lugar. Fico feliz que o trabalho não seja reservado para escravos. Se fosse esse o caso, eu seria privado de meu maior prazer. Muitas coisas eu gosto, mas nada substitui o trabalho.

Prometa-me, garoto, caso consiga um mestre, que vai trabalhar para ele o máximo que puder. Se ele não valorizar tudo o que você fizer, tudo bem, isso não importa. Lembre-se: um trabalho bem-feito faz bem ao homem que o faz. Isso o torna um homem melhor." Ele parou quando

Consejo es algo que se da libremente, pero ten cuidado de solo aceptar consejo que tenga valor. Aquel que recibe consejo acerca de sus ahorros por parte de alguien que no tiene experiencia en tales asuntos pagará con sus ahorros al comprobar, por experiencia, la falsedad de sus opiniones".

The Fourth Cure — Guard Thy Treasures from Loss

Without the copper he knew all too well how unwelcome he would be.

If wisely chosen as to their usefulness and value in the future, they are permanent in their value

Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom?

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill

This I do to prove to thee, my father, of how much greater value I consider thy wisdom than thy gold. Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom? Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not, as these three bags of gold do prove.

A man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it.

I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.