Quotes About Value

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don't think such stories have any novelty value.

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that I might accept their offers because they think I don't have many options. The truth is, I always have options available to me.

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don't matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

Often, organizations don't know how good they have it with a player or coach.

Only the work that generates money is allowed to count toward GDP. Little wonder, then, that we have organized education around feeding as many people as possible in bite-size flexible parcels into the employment establishment.

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that's trying to put things in the world that add value to people's lives.

Stuntmen bring a lot to the film industry, especially in action films, but if you start trying to give an Oscar for a stuntman, say he doubled a star, I think that takes away from the star's value.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

In the corporate world, there's, like, a 300 percent markup. In our world, we normally don't go above a 100 percent markup.

If we can reach populations in developing countries and help them understand the value of their indigenous diet and lifestyles rather than copying ours, perhaps we can reverse the exponential rise in cardiovascular disease that is plaguing them.

Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care.

I think to create brands such as ours and to develop them takes time, and many people when you ask them what is luxury, they say time. And in a way it's true.

We often judge people by their cars and the money they have... Sometimes worth is decided based on outer appearances and that's sad.