Quotes About Value

Cómo la estrategia moldea la estructura» explica la forma de seleccionar el enfoque correcto y, sea cual sea la estrategia seleccionada, cómo alinear tres propuestas estratégicas: una propuesta de valor que atraiga a los compradores, una propuesta de beneficio que permita a la compañía ganar dinero con esta propuesta de valor, y una propuesta a las personas que motive a los que trabajan con o para la compañía a ejecutar la estrategia.

many companies fail to deliver exceptional value because they are obsessed by the novelty of their product or service, especially if new technology plays a part in it.

Value innovation, not technology innovation, is what opens up commercially compelling new markets.

The greatest blocks to utility often represent the greatest and most pressing opportunities to unlock exceptional value.

when a company offers a leap in value, it rapidly earns brand buzz and a loyal following in the marketplace. Even large advertising budgets by an aggressive imitator rarely have the strength to overtake the brand buzz earned by the value innovator.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached. Reaching the goal itself may not be as valuable as the experience that can come in making a supreme effort to overcome the obstacles involved. The process can be more rewarding than the victory itself.

The development of inner skills is required, but it is interesting to note that if, while learning tennis, you begin to learn how to focus your attention and how to trust in yourself, you have learned something far more valuable than how to hit a forceful backhand. The

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

The backhand can be used to advantage only on a tennis court, but the skill of mastering the art of effortless concentration is invaluable in whatever you set your mind to.

Fact: There's been an eagle on a nickel, An eagle on a quarter, too. But there ain't no eagle On a dime.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry. Those who ought to know, tell me that you never really appreciate Moscow until you get back again to the land of the bread lines, unemployment, Jim Crow cars and crooked politicians, brutal bankers and overbearing police, three per cent beer and the Scottsboro case.

What right has anyone to say That I Must throw out pieces of my heart For pay?

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

Some people are worth all the effort it takes to love them, or to show them that they're worth loving.

Sex had always been a weapon, a tool, the only form of currency that never ran out.

What is the value of human life? We are made up of so much water.