Quotes About Value

The real way to get wealth is to find a customer and perform a service for that customer. Then repeat.

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours.

Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.

Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they've become.

Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.

But as long as we in the West place on color the value that we do, we make it impossible for the great unwashed to consolidate themselves according to any other principle. Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

This lack of what may roughly be called social paranoia causes the American writer in Europe to feel—almost certainly for the first time in his life—that he can reach out to everyone, that he is accessible to everyone and open to everything. This is an extraordinary feeling. He feels, so to speak, his own weight, his own value.

White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want.

It is the Negro, of course, who is presumed to have become equal—an achievement that not only proves the comforting fact that perseverance has no color but also overwhelmingly corroborates the white man's sense of his own value. Alas, this value can scarcely be corroborated in any other way; there is certainly little enough in the white man's public or private life that one should desire to imitate.

The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.

It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place. If

We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight."31

We live in a world rich in success but impoverished in meaning. A life of relentless work without meaning is brutal and dark. Most of us will never have the depth of love in our daily work that Manchester had with his fellow Marines. But we can move closer to it by building a culture where people depend on people. And in so doing, you will give people something of immeasurable value—work that matters. And that is truly great.

We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight.

generally to do something which is of value.1

My eyes are true and as delicate as a hummingbird's in the day; but they are nothing worth boasting of by starlight.

A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.

Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.

Están en juego nuestras vidas! Cuando los hombres luchan para conservar su propia existencia, hasta la sangre de sus semejantes carece de valor.

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.