Quotes About Value

As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions.

Markets compensate investors with expected returns commensurate with the degree of risk they take. By investing in asset classes that are higher risk, and therefore higher return, an investor can expect to outperform the market as a whole—while acknowledging that they are accepting greater risk. These higher risk, higher expected return asset classes are small-capitalization stocks, value stocks, and small-value stocks. An

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

That has a funny sound, but I knew there was value in it for me, because the world left me alone, and I liked that. I liked my solitude, my individuality, being alone on the street. I had playmates, and we did plenty of things together, but there was this general feeling of singularity. When I would go downtown on my own, I wasn't chattering with a lot of people about, "look at this, look at that." My mind was doing all the processing.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

It's happened before. It's all happened before. History is worth shit.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

you say I'm worthless yet you waste your time on me. you say I can't do anything right but you still waste your breath on me. you tell me I'm stupid yet you still try to teach me. you tell me to live my life yet you give me no life to live?

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

For every gift, there is a cost. For every cost, there is a gift.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

When fun is forbidden, it is all the more treasured.

You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.

Que os hace tanta gracia? -pregunto ella desconcertada. -La mercancía se ve, se pesa, se palpa y, si es necesario, se prueba y hasta se huele -Explico Loxan con cierto tono burlón-. Puedes valorarla y pedir algo a cambio. Pero la información... -hizo un gesto vago con la mano, como si quisiera atrapar el aire que respiraban- no se puede medir de la misma manera. ¿Cuanto vale? ¿Lo sabes tu, acaso?

Vivir la vida —dijo—, eso no tiene precio. Quien no haya pasado nunca frío no apreciará el valor de una hoguera. Quien nunca haya llorado no disfrutará de los momentos de risas. Quien no haya pasado hambre no valorará un plato de estofado caliente. Quien no conozca la muerte no sentirá amor por la vida. Esto es lo que Maga me enseñó.

Life was cheap in war.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

This, this little home," he said, "was worth all of it.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

The product might not be any better, but choosing to pay extra was a way of saying you deserved a little luxury in this world and that mind-set could make it so.