Quotes About Value

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

There is nothing esoteric about value investing. It is simply the process of determining the value underlying a security and then buying it at a considerable discount from that value. It is really that simple. The greatest challenge is maintaining the requisite patience and discipline to buy only when prices are attractive and to sell when they are not, avoiding the short-term performance frenzy that engulfs most market participants.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. Out-of-favor securities may be undervalued; popular securities almost never are. What the herd is buying is, by definition, in favor. Securities in favor have already been bid up in price on the basis of optimistic expectations and are unlikely to represent good value that has been overlooked.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Every service had a price. Every object a value. If someone made you a sword, you paid him the appropriate amount or traded something of equal value with him. If a man saved your life, you either paid him the amount you considered that life worth, or you saved his in return. Until either of those things was transacted, you were in his debt. It was business. And if Balthazar believed in anything with religious fervor, it was that.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Milano: ha i muri sporchi e le strade intasate, ma vale la pena. - Milán: tiene las paredes sucias y las calles abarrotadas, pero vale la pena.

a good tooth, gets no gold

I remember hearing a story about Clarence Jordan, a pecan farmer and theologian down in Georgia. He was speaking to a wealthy congregation that had an enormous gold cross. He asked how much they had paid for it. They explained that it was a gift from a wealthy donor and told him how much it was. When he heard how much it cost, he said, "Wow! Ya'll got ripped off. Christians used to be able to get a cross for free!" Brilliant.

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

everything she meant to say was you've given a worth and happiness to my life that I had no right to believe could ever exist

Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing

Any man who would deny you dessert isn't worth having.

He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.

Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable?

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.

Am I supposed to do something important ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family.

Thank you that I'm not worthless in your eyes nor in my own.

Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. Lloyd Biggle, Jr.