Quotes About Value

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

I don't score many goals or do much dribbling, but I still feel very much an important part of the team.

I need to feel like I am important part of the team, if I get that the goals will come.

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.

I think you learn to value the important things in life.

I started Athletes vs Cancer as a way to honor my mother, but now giving back has become a part of who I am, and more importantly, this is a key value I hope to pass on to my own sons.

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.

Championing quality improvement and value in the health care system is a passion of mine, and I'm able to bring about change through private equity activities.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

You have to know what you're worth and you have to stick with that because you're only going to hurt yourself in the end if you bring your price point way down, as well as impact others in the market.

For the record, my personal compensation for my work on the inauguration that I retained was $480,000. That number may seem like a lot. It is a lot.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.