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Quotes About Value

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
~ Orson Welles
Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
~ David Ogilvy
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
~ Alan Watts
Time is more important to me than money.
~ George Lucas
If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid
~ Lil Wayne
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
~ Karl Marx
Money itself isn't lost or made. It's simply transferred from one perception to another.
~ Michael Douglas
Money need not be our only reward.
~ Arundhati Roy
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
~ Bryn Terfel
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
~ William Blake
Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
~ David Korten
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?
~ Suze Orman
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
~ Samuel Johnson
Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.
~ Jim Palmer
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~ Kin Hubbard
Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.
~ Patrick Dempsey
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
~ Ad Reinhardt
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
~ E. M. Forster
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
~ Petronius
Gold is Money. That's it
~ J. P. Morgan
Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
~ Robert Harris
When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
~ Terence McKenna