Quotes About Value

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.

seventeen rooms with six bathrooms and eight working fireplaces for $650. In 1884 these Dakota rents had seemed substantial. But the astonishing thing was that by 1960 they had risen hardly at all. Then

Every adversity has value if one searches for it.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

If it floats, flies or fucks, rent—don't buy!

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

One reason that it's difficult to understand is that twentieth-century managers had learned to parrot phrases like "The customer is number one!" while continuing to run the organization as an internally focused, top-down bureaucracy interested in delivering value to shareholders.

In the Agile organization, "customer focus" means something very different. In firms that have embraced Agile, everyone is passionately obsessed with delivering more value to customers. Everyone in the organization has a clear line of sight to the ultimate customer and can see how their work is adding value to that customer—or not. If their work isn't adding value to any customer or user, then an immediate question arises as to why the work is being done at all.

The premise of Agile management is that empowering bottom-up innovation will steadily add significant value for customers and the firm.