Quotes About Value

My work means everything to me.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

I can only strive for what is important

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.