Quotes About Value

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses

The theory behind vegetarian eating as the highest form of purity led me to campaign tirelessly for animal rights. Many times I considered animal rights to be more important than human priorities. I didn't realize until years later that I was developing an attitude towards animals I had rejected growing up in India. Some animals were becoming sacred in my eyes. And I was placing their value well above that of human beings.

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

thus has been the only commodity whose future price is always equal to the spot price plus the rate of interest over the time period. A million paper dollars held since 1913, when the Federal Reserve Bank was created, would be worth $20,000 today, down 98 percent. A million dollars of gold in 1913 would now be worth $62 million.

The point about bad money is not that it converges with the worth of the paper it is printed on. It is worse than that. Falsifying the information basis of all prices, it stultifies entrepreneurs, deceives savers, and fosters tyranny. Interest

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The

Warren Buffett summed up the conventional view with his usual pith: "Gold gets dug out of the ground . . . we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. . . . Anyone from Mars would be scratching their head."2

For thirty pence he did my death devise,Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

One of the things that's so overlooked by many people is what's in museum shops. Very often there is a really great product, and it doesn't cost a lot of money. At some point you won't be able to find it so easily anymore. That's when it becomes valuable.

Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: "It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor" (Poetics 1459a); "ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" (Rhetoric 1410b).

If you ask him for a shilling, or two or three shillings, he'll give freely freely, but if he know that he got to spend a few hundred dollars, which is no more than three shillings compare to what he got, boys, he will cry buckets of tears.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Ever wonder why voters never thank governments for giving them tax cuts? Because it's their money, and it doesn't buy what it used to.

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.

Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special.

You think my life is such a precious thing to me, that I would trade my honor for a few more years, of what?