Quotes About Value

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Ashes had always had some value to farmers as fertiliser,

Not how much, but how well, is our motto.

I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

It never occurred to us to save any of those things. We never thought they'd have any value later on. We worked in a very small office, and the printer would send back all the original pages of artwork, but we had no place to put them. So when we ordered food, we told the delivery guy, "Hey, would you mind taking these pages and dropping them in the trash on the way out?"

When the toiler bends and labors till his sweat turns into pearls, 'Tis a nobler decoration than the coronets of earls.

p.34: Peter Drucker. La innovación es la competencia central de la empresa moderna competitiva. Tiene que establecerse en el corazón de la organización desde el principio, ALIMENTARSE CONTINUAMENTE CON INVERSIONES Y APOYO EJECUTIVO, y tiene que TRANSFORMARSE SISTEMÁTICAMENTE EN VALOR para la firma.

It took him years to learn the value of silence, the power of carefully chosen words.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!

The only thing he cares about.

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.

I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

Hay tantos milagros en el mundo que apenas pueden contarse, o que hay tan pocos que apenas vale la pena mencionarlos

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information," I suggested.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.

The old man… used to say that a nap "after dinner was silver—before dinner, golden."

Which is more important: money or wisdom? "Wisdom," says the philosopher. "Ha!" scoffs the cynic. "If wisdom is more important than money, why is it that the wise wait on the rich, and not the rich on the wise?" "Because," says the scholar, "the wise, being wise, understand the value of money; but the rich, being only rich, do not know the value of wisdom.

A woman, feeling sorry for a beggar who had come to her door, invited him in and offered him food. On the table was a pile of dark bread—and a few slices of challah. The shnorrer (beggar) promptly fell upon the challah. "There's black bread, too," the woman hinted. "I prefer challah." "But challah is much more expensive!" "Lady," said the beggar, "it's worth it." That, I think, is chutzpa.