Quotes About Value

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

This should remind us to value the many people whose jobs do not generate huge incomes but are worthwhile, essential, even noble—from scholars and teachers to janitors and street cleaners. The market may not reward them, but we should respect them.

I've updated the value of what I sell, rather than the quantity.

For many small businesses, growing in size is a distraction. Because I value my free time and wanted balance in my life, I chose to grow in terms of profit instead. With a team of just five, I've gone from $500,000 to $1.5 million in annual revenue just by adding technology and new offerings. I've updated the value of what I sell, rather than the quantity.

We know our way of thinking is considered antiquated, as dated as an Edsel. But to me, it has meaning.

El prestigio es uno de los bienes más baratos y fáciles de comprar.

Nadie se da cuenta al tener un libro en las manos, el esfuerzo, el dolor, la vigilia, la sangre que ha costado. El libro es, sin disputa, la obra mayor de la humanidad. — Dime qué lees y te diré quién eres

Time is the only thing we cannot replace, apart from our health and our lives. I resent wasting a moment of it. But

Ownership is not the most important thing. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. Nothing

Just imagine getting rich while you're helping others to help you get richer and prove their worth in the process. Magic! It

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. On the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!

the ability to sell, which is usually nothing more than a talent for hype and keeping a straight face as you demand a fifty times markup from potential buyers who wouldn't know a Damien Hirst from a pickled sardine.

Time frittered away attending to tasks easily achieved but relatively inessential to your ultimate goal is wasted—a criminal waste of a precious resource.

How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes.

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

We must teach ourselves to value flux, but more than that, we must teach ourselves to value and attend to friends, not as way-stations between lovers or diversions from the real business of pairing up and marriage, but as relationships of first consequence in their own right.

Life itself is a race, marked by a start and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value.

Time is one of the few things man cannot influence. We all have a desire to create something that will show we were here. That we did something of value. Of course, timeless design is wasted if it cannot survive.

El agua es, sin duda, todo lo que se ha dicho que es: unión, transporte, intercambio y acercamiento; pero a condición de que el hombre consienta en ello, y más aún, a condición de que esté dispuesto a pagar lo que cuesta.

Oh ingratos mortales! ¡Jamás conocéis vuestros bienes, sino cuando de ellos carecéis!

Que esto me sirva para adornarme con tu amistad... pues sí, tu amistad siempre me adornó

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

La gente le va a preferir a usted sólo por dos motivos: porque hace algo mejor o porque lo hace igual que los demás pero más barato.