Quotes About Value

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

I was taught the value of everyday activism and showing up by my grandma, who wasn't a public official, but was a breast cancer researcher and would mentor students of color in her lab at UC Berkley. She taught me when I was 4 years old what the word boycott meant.

As with anything we do as entrepreneurs, researching how our businesses impact and influence our customers and our markets - and our world - is critical to building something of value as a business.

When you give people something for nothing for awhile and then try to sell them some of that same thing, consciously or not, they resent it.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.

If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?

I didn't want to be one of those people who was resentful. The moment you start saying to people that their lives must be miserable because they're sick, you give their sickness value over them.

I think you kind of facilitate civil conversation no matter how heated you think it could get by telling everybody and showing them that you mean what you say when you value all sides.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?'

Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

I feel rejected in France. And do you know why I signed for Bayern when I could have gone anywhere? Because they made me feel wanted.

Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because they needed the money.

Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

We all should realize the significance of a human life and how we all should be treated.