Quotes About Value

My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.

If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

To be part of a winning team was something I had undervalued.

I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

In some ways, it's better to be undervalued a little than overvalued a lot, just because it's still easy to believe our best days are ahead of us.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

I must say that books in India are not only underpriced but are also undervalued.

We think of the Techstars product as not really the accelerator but the network. That's what entrepreneurs should be valuing here. I think it's the most undervalued thing that many entrepreneurs don't get.

The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.

I once had this idea that I wanted to make the perfect boxer short that's not too long, not too short, with pearl buttons, made from real shirting fabric. They were coming in at $215. Well, not even the richest guy in the world is going to pay more than $125 for his underwear.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.