Quotes About Value

Taip per vis? gyvenim? mes darome žemus ir menkus poelgius, baimindamiesi t?, kuri? visiškai nevertiname.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.

Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

When what we offer is sacred to us, then the only honorable way to offer it is as a gift.5 No price can be high enough to reflect the sacredness of the infinite.

Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.

Time is life. When we experience time as scarce, we experience life as short and poor.

Paul declared in Philippians 3:8: "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ" (NASB).

The Lord's judgment of who you are and what you are worth is more accurate than what you think of yourself because His view is eternal. He doesn't appraise you by investigating temporary issues such as who you know, where you live, your title, your income, or how you look. Rather, He sees you through the blood of Jesus and desires for you to seek Him wholeheartedly.

The person who has built his house upon the Rock and has built his life out of the substance of God's Word has a peace that sustains him through difficulties, heartaches, and trials. He has the capacity to enjoy the pleasures of life, and he knows the pleasures are genuine. Some things the world offers as pleasure bring only pain. He can discern what is good for him and what is not; what has lasting value and what does not; and what brings true pleasure and what does not.

There is no need to go through life handicapped by past experiences. What others say about you doesn't matter. How they treated you is inconsequential. The only accurate, eternal, unassailable measure of your worth comes from almighty God, who will one day judge the living and the dead without exception (1 Pet. 4:4–5).

An idol is anything that you value more—either by your attitude or actions—than God.

didn't usher in the Space Age; it ushered in the Digital Age. And that is as valuable a legacy as the imagined Space Age might have been. Probably more valuable.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Just as this social creation, the state, cannot coherently be limited by reference to rights that are its own invention, and society is fundamentally organized by entities whose reality is society's own construct, so it is with the value of physical objects and human labor, the division of the sexes and indeed the identity of the individual person, subsisting over time as the distinct and ultimate subject of discourse and attribution.

Principled Entrepreneurship™—creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity. Good profit comes from making a contribution in society—not from corporate welfare or other ways of taking advantage of people.

To succeed, a business must not only develop profit and loss measures, but also determine their underlying drivers, in order to understand what is adding value, what is not, and why. This knowledge informs its vision and strategies, leads to innovations, creates opportunities to eliminate waste, and guides continuous improvement.

By "good profit," I don't mean high margins or high return on capital, or lots of profit by just any means. What I consider to be good profit comes from Principled Entrepreneurship™—creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity. Good profit comes from making a contribution in society—not from corporate welfare or other ways of taking advantage of people.

The role of business in society is to help people improve their lives by providing products and services they value more highly than their alternatives, and to do so while consuming fewer resources.

The bottom line of my business philosophy can best be summed up as follows: Good profit can only result from creating value for the customer. It is the manifestation of the entrepreneur's respect for what the customer values.

4. Principled Entrepreneurship: This principle—so central to our culture that we had it trademarked—is defined as "maximizing the long-term profitability of the business by creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity." Creating value for society requires Principled Entrepreneurship—not political or other forms of entrepreneurship, such as corporate welfare or fraud.