Quotes About Value

I'm not a massive spender. I look at the bank balance building, but it just looks like Monopoly money, really.

You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

I advocate that schools should put a value on what a scholarship is worth and then pay the athlete monthly.

Moonlight is my theater group. They are my home. I feel greatly appreciated there. That type of satisfaction, money can't buy.

I've learned that whether it's with your skin or your hair, less is more. People go and do so much to it, I don't think that's good. Too much product is not good, so I think that's probably the best thing. And not the most expensive thing is the best thing. That's for sure. I've learned that the hard way.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

There is only one Piers Morgan. But no one is completely irreplaceable, no matter who they are.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

los precios coordinan el uso de los recursos de tal manera que cada recurso se emplea tan sólo en la cantidad que es igual en valor a lo que vale para otros en usos distintos.

los recursos de una economía se usan ineficientemente cuando existe un monopolio, porque estos recursos estarían siendo transferidos de usos con mayor valor a usos con menor valor.

Those who disdain wealth as a worthy goal for an individual or a society seem not to realize that wealth is the only thing that can prevent poverty.

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.