Quotes About Value

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.

I've never had a particularly sweet tooth. In fact, during the war, I used to swap my sweet ration coupons with my father - and he'd give me his clothing coupons in return. Looking good was more important to me than scoffing sweets.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Entertainment is a good enough product to sell on its own merits. Why should it be given away free to help somebody sell tires or toothpaste?

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?

If we are what we have, and we have nothinh, thenwho are we? Are we nothing?

If I am what I have and all I have is lost, then what am I?

basic truth which would be a major foundation stone of God's new nation, and which by 1776 would be declared self-evident: that in the eyes of their Creator, all men were of equal value.

Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

Humans are replaceable, seconds are not."--Darth Chratis

It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots".

It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.

We were nothing to them. I think now of the great value we put on what we were and I wonder what does it mean when another people judge you to be worth so little you were only to be killed? How our pride in everything was crushed so small it disappeared until it was just specks of things floating away on the wind.

It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you or your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

there is no single decision you will make that will impact your company value more than the pricing," Horowitz declared, with oracular finality. When a software company market a new product - something original that nobody has seen before - it has once chance to set the price. Whatever point it chooses will stick in customers' minds, making it hard to raise prices later. Moreover, any given price difference will generate a bigger difference in a company's profit margin.

Growth was running at 40 percent per month, but what was more impressive was the motor that was driving it. Unlike Yahoo, which was pouring money into marketing, eBay's marketing budget was zero. Its hectic expansion was instead propelled by Metcalfe's law: as the size of its auction network grew, its value rose exponentially. The more sellers listed stuff on eBay, the more bargain hunters were drawn to the site; the more buyers there were, the more sellers turned to it.

It occurred to me that there was nothing more precious than satisfaction. That it was possible to end up committing a crime just because you were contaminated by a little discontent. You could convince yourself that you were satisfied, then someone could come along and say, 'But I can offer you more', and then you could begin to think, My life is not worth much after all. In fact, you could tell yourself, My life was completely worthless from the start. p. 247, Yahoo Yahoo

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.