Quotes About Value

He came to three conclusions which explained to him the success of the Social Democrats: They knew how to create a mass movement, without which any political party was useless; they had learned the art of propaganda among the masses; and, finally, they knew the value of using what he calls "spiritual and physical terror.

So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important .

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.

The Virgin birth's a way of thinking about women and about love. The ark is a far more bloody logical way of thinking about the question of animal husbandry than the delightful ad hoc thuggery we've instituted. Creationism's a way of thinking I am not worthless at a time when people were being told and shown they were.

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers

If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him.

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

What sort of people are they, to act thus?' Yedigei asked aloud; he was deeply upset. 'Everything on earth is important to them, except death.' Yet this thought gave him no peace. 'If death is nothing to them, then it follows that life also has no value for them. What is their purpose in life? For what and how do they live?

spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

An accurate but useless idea is still useless.

If a message can't be used to make predictions or decisions, it is without value, no matter how accurate or comprehensive it is.

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion is 1,000 times greater than 1,000,000. A billion seconds is 32 years.

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of 60,000 people. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

learned that lesson the hard way when his company tried to introduce a third-pound burger at the same price as the McDonald's quarter-pounder. More than half the customers thought they were being ripped off. "Why should we pay the same amount for less meat?" they said.

One study of corporate mergers and acquisitions—some of the highest-stakes decisions executives make—showed that 83% failed to create any value for shareholders.