Quotes About Value

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

Money is a needful and precious thing

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

Money is the by-product, it is not the purpose.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Information about money is more important than money itself.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?