Quotes About Value

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

One can never know how valuable is the paper he is holding. What would we pay for a menu from the feast at Aleutropolis!

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.

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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Entrepreneurial profit… is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production in exactly the same sense that wages are the value expression of what the worker "produces." It is not a profit of exploitation any more than are wages.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Everyone has a price.

Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad

The utility that allowed emotions to persist in the genes of our species may have been the ability to personalize value. Rather than simply detecting risk and avoiding danger, the organism could consider, "How dangerous is this to me?" Other animals can represent value, but only humans can make it personal. In this view, an emotion is the experience that something of value is happening to you. If so, emotions could not exist without autonoesis. No self, no emotion.

To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production.

When someone told Mark Twain that Andrew Carnegie's money was tainted, he said, it sure is—'tain't yours and 'tain't mine.

Here, my brother got to feel as important, as baronial, as I was sure he didn't at work, where he no doubt just pissed people off.

There were rumors and jokes and casual remarks made about him, and the bishop and his staff were content to allow Joshua's reputation to be determined by these remarks. It showed the poverty of their concern for the real life of the community and the little value they placed on reputations.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Les opinions subjectives et les sentiments n'ont aucune valeur. La vérité est seulement dans les faits.

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.