Quotes About Value

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

For the first time I felt quite important to Charlotte. It was a nice feeling to be needed for a change.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

Slaves today are cheaper than they have ever been. The cost of slaves has fallen to a historical low, as little as $10.

Leadership is courageous, authentic influence that creates enduring value.

The only things that are increasing in cost while everything else heads to zero are human experiences—which cannot be copied. Everything

Metadata is the new wealth

there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product.

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke. A couple of high-profile companies, like Red Hat, Apache, and others make their living selling instruction and paid support for free software. The copy of code, being mere bits, is free. The lines of free code become valuable to you only through support and guidance. A lot of medical and genetic information will go this route in the coming decades. Right now getting a full copy of all your DNA is

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke.

the value of our attention has been remarkably stable over 20 years.

When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can't be copied? Trust, for instance.

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow.

your money fits in one hand, mine fits in two

I believe He meant we can do nothing that lasts, nothing that proves to be fulfilling or worthy of our life investment. If we spend our lives on things that have no eternal value and we exist for our egos, then our efforts will prove to be worth nothing. In the end, everything temporal will burn.Only God can turn our lives into something with true meaning, which means that their impact lasts beyond the mere physical.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

All told, some $594 million in ingots—the equivalent of $10 billion in 2001 dollars—would over the course of the next decade be leaving the goldfields of California for the eastern United States.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

It was hard to see where he was going, and he was careful not to damage the camera, so expensive that his father made him name it (Carl), so he would treat it more carefully.

Kernighan and Plauger noted that "a comment is of zero (or negative) value if it is wrong.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Of course, he had always been wise in the ways of cats, valuing them above entire races, many men, and most women.