Quotes About Value

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

Talk never goes up in price, it's always free, and you usually get what you pay for.

Your network is your net worth.

I live to create value in peoples' lives and I measure myself by their reactions. I'm a love merchant. I trade in intangibles.

When you give to grow others' capabilities, you create abundance in their lives. No matter who you are, you can give power to people too. It's a matter of understanding what intangible value you have that's worth sharing.

Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used. Consider

A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character 'consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will' (XXV 1174).

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Less Is Not Laziness Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates

The Tail End" by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog—if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. .

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom. With

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.

It's always the hard part that creates value.

People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.

la hora de valorar un producto nuevo, me centro en sus aspectos novedosos (no en todos ellos) e interpreto de forma exhaustiva cómo pueden impactar en las emociones de los consumidores que lo usen. Después de eso, considero cómo pueden evolucionar esos mismos aspectos con el tiempo.

This doesn't mean you want to spend your time doing it. If you spend your time, worth $20–25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."—Warren Buffett

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.