Quotes About Value

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

There's nothing as real as money.

We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

Less coin, less care.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.