Quotes About Value

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.