Quotes About Value

In purchasing a piggy, you're basically paying $10 in hopes of protecting $22 in spare change from your own hands. Life is full of these piggy-bank situations

tangibility, rather than the magnitude, of the benefits that makes people care.

But in many circumstances this is a false choice for one compelling reason: If a message can't be used to make predictions or decisions, it is without value, no matter how accurate or comprehensive it is.

There's nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.

Never assume you know what your customers value or that their preferences will remain static.

Beauty is not everything!

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

now I sometimes wonder if it might not have been the most worthwhile of the skills I learned on the island.

Animals were superior to most humans. Men would have turned away once you had nothing more to give them.

should have remembered how tricky the gods are. How they give what you want with one hand while taking away, with the other, something much more valuable. Yes, fame would come to both the young men, and bards would sing of their exploits oftener than they sang of their fathers'. But when they did so, listeners would turn away to hide their tears.

In a world of infinite choice, not context content is king.

With the evolution of online retail, however, has come the revelation that being able to recategorize and rearrange products on the fly unlocks their real value.

There's a value in that space - rent, overhead, staffing costs, etc. - that has to be paid back by a certain number of inventory turns per month. In other words, the onesies and twosies waste space. However, when that space doesn't cost anything, suddenly you can look at those infrequent sellers again, and they begin to have value. This was the insight that led to Amazon, Netflix, and all the other companies I was talking to.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.

We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.

Don: You know what makes this alright? We took every moment and wrung it out for all it was worth. Every second, every touch. Every share. My life would've been worthless without you, Edie. If I hadn't met you, it wouldn't've been worth being here. You're the greatest woman ever walked God's earth. No word of a lie.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest. ... It can disguise itself as power or property and there is nothing more serious than you are a girl who has neither. 12

occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.

If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.

The big difference between the twentysomething and sixtysomething generations is a sense of time. The young believe they have plenty of time, while for older workers time is precious. "Time is running short, and many boomers want work that also offers purpose," says Marc Freedman. "They too want work that gives meaning.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

Sorry, Tom," said Mr. Lemoncello. "At the Lemoncello Library, we value the truth more than myths." "What about all those Percy Jackson books you have?" fumed Edison. "Those are myths!" "And they are correctly shelved as fiction.