Quotes About Value

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention.

but at least I know that I cannot forecast and a small number of people (those I care about) take that as an asset.

If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!

Consider that all the wealth of the world can't buy a liquid more pleasurable than water after intense thirst.

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

One day in the 1980s I had dinner with a famous speculator, a hugely successful man. He muttered the hyperbole that hit home: "much of what other people know isn't worth knowing.

The more uncertainty, the more valuable the option.

Sadly, it may be even worse for you to make $10 million, then lose back nine, than to making nothing at all! True, you may end up with a million (as compared to nothing), but it may be better had you got zilch. (This assumes, of course, that you care about financial rewards.)

The best slave is someone who is overpaid and he knows it

All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.

The work itself was a secondary consideration.

you are excited about how cheap it

What matters, in the end, is what they pay for goods, not what they say they "think" about them, or the various possible reasons they give you or themselves for that.

Who gets rewarded, the central banker who avoids a recession or the one who comes to "correct" his predecessors' faults and happens to be there during some economic recovery? Who is more valuable, the politician who avoids a war or the one who starts a new one (and is lucky enough to win)?

are supposedly underpaid because of their emotional reward from serving society.

my wish is for people in general to remain fools of randomness (so I can trade against them), yet for there to remain a minority intelligent enough to value my methods and hire my services.

10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.