Quotes About Value

When you have a good anything, you notice the difference - whether it's a good shooting sleeve or a pair of shoes or a jersey, we all feel the differences.

The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.

If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

I think if I let the team's performance dictate how I behave or how I perceive my performance, or whether or not there's value, or whether or not anyone even cares, it's a dangerous and slippery slope.

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Don't look at small business as a means to an end and a way to make money until the corporation hires you; look at it as a chance to create something of immeasurable value and beauty in a world that desperately needs it.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language.

It's small things like that - a pen, or being able to communicate freely - that we should always cherish.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.

VC firms that don't have a brand are going to struggle. Because there is a lot of money out there, you need to have a point of view, a brand, to really add value. You can't just talk about it, and say well, we are smart people.

Generation Y is much smarter. They just get information much more quickly. They really understand the idea of quality and value.

A smile costs about $240.

I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.

If somebody asks for a photo, with a smile, it is nothing.

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

I think I would have one favourite jacket, one favourite pair of sneakers - like, from every kind of thing I do have my favourite - but they're often the things I wear the least because I just want to keep them nice, so I don't really tend to wear them as much.