Quotes About Value

We value education, but we do not understand its history.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of everything else.

I see companies these days where thoughts of "exits" are foremost in the minds of top management and board, and it is so clear that this value will infect the decision making down to the smallest choice by the most junior employee. Do we create something that is good, or just that seems good and might get us acquired or funded?

The high-tech community was getting a lesson in the dynamics of network effects—products or services become increasingly valuable as more people use them.

You know, the name is about 3 percent of what matters. But sometimes, 3 percent is the difference between winning and losing.

In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.

Não ganhamos dinheiro quando vendemos coisas. Ganhamos dinheiro quando ajudamos os clientes a decidir o que comprar.

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop," he

The membership fee is a onetime pain, but it's reinforced every time customers walk in and see forty-seven-inch televisions that are two hundred dollars less than anyplace else," Sinegal said. "It reinforces the value of the concept. Customers know they will find really cheap stuff at Costco.

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,

Existem dois tipos de vendedores: os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar mais e os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar menos, e nós seremos o segundo, ponto final",

Bezos said. "When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make

it was never about the seventy-nine dollars. it was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else

Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. They want to work on things that will pay dividends in two or three years, and if they don't work in two or three years they will move on to something else.

It's Chateau Haut-Bailly 2009. Retails for about two hundred

Jack bought it for $6.99 at T.J. Maxx, a discount clothing store where hip goes to die.

Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.

The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

The freedom to apprehend aesthetic value may rise from class conflict, but the value is not identical with the freedom, even if it cannot be achieved without that apprehension. Aesthetic value is by definition engendered by an interaction between artists, an influencing that is always an interpretation.

cannot, with Nietzsche and with Pater, believe that life can only be appreciated as an aesthetic phenomenon. But I wish to believe that, and perhaps Judaic tradition blocks me from it. Wisdom needs to be added to aesthetic splendor and cognitive power as the three stigmata or criteria of knowledge or value. But where except in Shakespeare are all three to be discovered consistently?