Quotes About Value

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.