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Quotes About Value

Over the next six months, we discovered the company had been pursuing deals in an ad hoc, opportunistic way, struggling in four key areas: identifying which companies to acquire, performing due diligence on these companies, calculating their value, and integrating acquisitions into our business. Taking stock of our deficits led us to a powerful, four-step model for pursuing M&A
~ David Cote
We never minded paying a fair price, but overpaying was anathema to us—and it should be to you.
~ David Cote
When it came to monetary compensation, we didn't hesitate to pay our leaders above market.
~ David Cote
To attract and retain the very best, we also paid the best people what they would command at other companies for a bigger job. Why wait until someone else tried to steal them away before paying them what the market said they were worth?
~ David Cote
Your feelings do not determine your worth, simply your relative state of comfort or discomfort.
~ David D. Burns
you cannot earn worth through what you do. Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness. Self-worth based on accomplishments is a "pseudo-esteem
~ David D. Burns
İnsan için deÄŸer kavram?n?n tam bir soyutlama olduÄŸunu kabul etmelisiniz. İnsani deÄŸer diye bir ÅŸey asl?nda yok. Bu nedenle de ona sahip olup olmamak diye bir ÅŸey de yok ve bu ölçülebilir bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.
~ David D. Burns
Your orbit is certainly big and fancy in comparison with mine. But I don't understand how that makes you a better person than I am, or how it follows that I'm inferior to you.
~ David D. Burns
Depresyondaki bireylerin büyük bir çoÄŸunluÄŸu asl?nda çok sevilen insanlard?r, fakat bu hiç iÅŸe yaramaz; çünkü, kendilerini sevmezler ve kendilerine güvenleri eksiktir. Aslolan, ancak kendinize verdiÄŸiniz deÄŸerin nas?l hissettiÄŸinizi belirlediÄŸidir.
~ David D. Burns
now ready for the trash. Your lack of self-esteem might even culminate in a suicide attempt, the ultimate payment for measuring your worth exclusively by the standards of the marketplace. Do you
~ David D. Burns
What a man's value is no longer measured by what he does, by his finances or social standing, how does he determine his worth? In our world, a man's presence--his depth of awareness--is his most valuable asset.
~ David Deida
When a man's value is no longer measured by what he does, by his finances or social standing, how does he determine his worth? In our world, a man's presence--his depth of awareness--is his most valuable asset.
~ David Deida
Life doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
~ David Deida
Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... --Eriond
~ David Eddings
It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.
~ David Eddings
investment success requires sticking with positions made uncomfortable by their variance with popular opinion. Casual commitments invite casual reversal, exposing portfolio managers to the damaging whipsaw of buying high and selling low. Only with the confidence created by a strong decision-making process can investors sell mania-induced excess and buy despair-driven value.
~ David F. Swensen
Emphasizing inefficiently priced asset classes with interesting active management opportunities increases the odds of investment success. Intelligent acceptance of illiquidity and a value orientation constitute a sensible, conservative approach to portfolio management.
~ David F. Swensen
Casual commitments invite casual reversal, exposing portfolio managers to the damaging whipsaw of buying high and selling low. Only with the confidence created by a strong decision-making process can investors sell mania-induced excess and buy despair-driven value.
~ David F. Swensen
Les gens se leurrent, déclara-t-il comme s'il ne voyait pas où elle voulait en venir. Ils ont tellement soif d'amour qu'ils passent leur vie à le chercher. Quand ils croient l'avoir trouvé, ils se persuadent d'avoir mis la main sur un joyau dont les autres ont été assez stupides pour ne pas voir la valeur.
~ David Farland
Instead of passing our callback function directly to getJSON(), we instead pass it to the then() method. When the HTTP response arrives, the body of that response is parsed as JSON, and the resulting parsed value is passed to the function that we passed to then().
~ Unknown
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: This is water. This is water. It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.
~ David Foster Wallace
Even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as - and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be - lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of value or reason or even to go on living, before they were 'saved.
~ David Foster Wallace
As most adults know, the distinctions between one's essential character and value and people's perceptions of that character/value are fuzzy and hard to delineate, especially in adolescence.
~ David Foster Wallace