Quotes About Value

There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.

Solutions to problems never trespass into anything of real value.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

The total cost of the Federal Arts Project was only $23 million. Many of these paintings, sculptures and prints were given to museums, courthouses, public buildings. . .. I think that today those in museums alone are worth about $100 million.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

I realize no one thinks being a librarian is as awesome as being a neurosurgeon, but I always thought I was doing something valuable, putting books in the hands of readers. Books can save lives, too. I really believe that.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to be 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.' (NYRB, Vol. LX, No. 17)

In math, the constant variable stays the same, while the other variables have no fixed value. But in life, as those variables take on more precedence, the value of the constant diminishes.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

Magnanimity does not make you affluent but it buy you gems a affluent can't..

I have always come in a poor third with the people whose affection I most craved. Well, you know what? I'll be damned if I'll settle for that from you, too. I deserve better. Its taken me a while to realize it, but I do.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

got a return on his investment of almost two votes per gallon.

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.