Quotes About Value

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

You can't expect to look like a million bucks if you eat from the dollar menu.

Good food ain't cheap, and cheap food ain't good.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.

I had rather be loved than to be called a king in earth, or a lord in Heaven.

Believe me then, my friend, that that is a miserable arithmetic which would estimate friendship at nothing, or at less than nothing.

The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.

If you had to decide between being given a million dollars and eating tacos, which would you choose — corn or flour?

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

There are no pockets in a shroud.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Never buy a what you do not want, because it is cheap...

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.