Quotes About Values

Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.

Every family has its scriptures, but most can't articulate them

A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.

Hay un tipo de mujeres y de hombres jóvenes y fuertes que quieren dar su vida por una causa. La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Culture was culture, and money was money.

Politics, despite what some believed, was not morality, nor reflective of it.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you'd rather fly or be invisible?

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

An organization's capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes—the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization's values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.   When

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it. Realizing this frees us to focus on the things that really matter.

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

hedonic regression analysis to identify how markets valued individual attributes and how those attribute values changed over time.

Processes and values define how resources—many of which can be bought and sold, hired and fired—are combined to create value.

Managers whose organizations are confronting change must first determine that they have the resources required to succeed. They then need to ask a separate question: does the organization have the processes and values to succeed?

Denying children the opportunity to develop their processes is not the only way outsourcing has damaged their capabilities, either. There is something far more important at risk when we outsource too much of our lives: our values.

even if you're doing it with the best of intentions, if you find yourself heading down a path of outsourcing more and more of your role as a parent, you will lose more and more of the precious opportunities to help your kids develop their values—which may be the most important capability of all.