Quotes About Value

I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.

Whether they're paying for it or not is not really relevant. They're investing a significant amount of time in our content. At some point, commercial opportunities will materialise for greater percentages of that audience.

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money. There's always a chance you could turn on 'Pawn Stars' one day and that'd be on there.

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's value comes from the people who walk out the door every night, who have to decide each morning whether to walk back in. One of the simplest things you can do as a leader is honor their choice and appreciate their work.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

A real writer (or artist or entrepreneur) has something to give. She has lived enough and suffered enough and thought deeply enough about her experience to be able to process it into something that is of value to others, even if only as entertainment. A fake writer (or artist or entrepreneur) is just trying to draw attention to himself. The word "fake" may be too unkind. Let's say "young" or "evolving.

nothing good in life comes but at a price. Sweetest of all is liberty.

The moment a person learns he's got terminal cancer, a profound shift takes place in his psyche. At one stroke in the doctor's office he becomes aware of what really matters to him. Things that sixty seconds earlier had seemed all- important suddenly appear meaningless, while people and concerns that he had till then dismissed at once take on supreme importance.

The humanist believes that humankind, as individuals, is called upon to co-create the world with God. This is why he values human life so highly. In his view, things do progress, life does evolve; each individual has value, at least potentially, in advancing this cause.

On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

I realized that what matters with any innovation is that it actually creates more value for people.