Quotes About Value

Mo?liwe, ?e obstaj?c odrobin? zbyt uporczywie przy ni?szo?ci kobiet, profesor nie mia? wcale na uwadze ni?szo?ci kobiet w?a?nie, ale raczej swoj? w?asn? wy?szo??. To j? w?a?nie stara? si? ochroni? - a robi? to gor?czkowo i mo?e z nieco zbyt wielkim naciskiem, poniewa? jego wy?szo?? stanowi?a dla? nies?ychanie cenny klejnot.

Even if one could state the value of any one gift at the moment, those values will change; in a century's time very possibly they will have changed completely.

What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself — a voice answering a voice.

The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

El dinero dignifica lo que es frívolo si no está pagado.

Mrs. Ramsay did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations.

What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Posiblemente, cuando el profesor insistía con demasiado énfasis sobre la inferioridad de las mujeres, no era la inferioridad de éstas lo que le preocupaba, sino su propia superioridad. Era esto lo que protegía un tanto acaloradamente y con demasiada insistencia, porque para él era una joya del precio más incalculable.

No, delightful as the pastime of measuring be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.57

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.

It is conventionally believed that companies can either create greater value to customers at a higher cost or create reasonable value at a lower cost. Here strategy is seen as making a choice between differentiation and low cost.21 In contrast, those that seek to create blue oceans pursue differentiation and low cost simultaneously.

Instead of drilling down and finding ways to creatively meet the target cost as Ford did, if companies give in to the tempting route of either bumping up the strategic price or cutting back on utility, they are not on the path to lucrative blue waters.

Blue ocean strategists do not seek to beat the competition. Instead they aim to make the competition irrelevant.

the strategic price you set for your offering must not only attract buyers in large numbers but also help you to retain them.

The cost side of a company's business model ensures that it creates a leap in value for itself in the form of profit—that is, the price of the offering minus the cost of production. It is the combination of exceptional utility, strategic pricing, and target costing that allows companies to achieve value innovation—a

Corporate graveyards are full of companies that got to market first with innovative offerings not linked to value.

Every great strategy has focus, and a company's strategic profile, or value curve, should clearly show it. Looking at Southwest's profile, we can see at once that the company emphasizes only three factors: friendly service, speed, and frequent point-to-point departures.

while speed may be important, even more important is linking innovation to value. No company should rest easy until it achieves value innovation.

Value without innovation tends to focus on value creation on an incremental scale, something that improves value but is not sufficient to make you stand out in the marketplace.

A blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades

Companies should strive to make the competition irrelevant by offering buyers a leap in value.