Quotes About Value

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.