Quotes About Values

Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.

His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last." Markkula

It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and passions and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

a good company must "impute"—it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing.

subrayaba que nunca se debía crear una empresa para hacerse rico. La meta debía ser producir algo en lo que creyeras y crear una compañía duradera».

Instead, Franklin found "a good and faithful helpmate" who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.

Aquello reforzó mi convicción de lo que era realmente importante: grandes creaciones en lugar de ganar dinero, devolver tantas cosas al curso de la historia y de la conciencia humana como me fuera posible».

The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of that view of a relationship between a man and wife, he [Einstein] told Maric, Because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a life-long contract.

And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues, and spiritual values.2

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."25

Se dio cuenta, una vez más, de que Estados Unidos, pese a sus muestras de mal gusto y sus excesos de entusiasmo, le ofrecía libertades que puede que ya no encontrara en Europa.

It's harder, and less glorious, to realize that legitimate values sometimes conflict with one another, and they have to be balanced. This is not a talent that is exalted on talk radio or cable news shows. But the need to calibrate a proper balance among opposing principles is evident in every issue we face today, from abortion to heath-care reform to affirmative action.

Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria —afirmaba—. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar aún más la fama, la gloria y los honores.

The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are profound differences in the values of the societies it attempts to integrate."3 Oppenheimer thus became the first of many postwar realists to disparage Einstein for being allegedly too idealistic.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn. Obviously

Man must have new concepts, new ideals and new values which will uplift him from the barbarian desires to kill for greed - to build empires for power - to seek happiness through material possessions or to accumulate gold under the delusion that he is creating wealth.

Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.

I will never sell my liberty for gold.

One's true religion is what one cares about most.

Everybody knows there is a global culture—an ever-growing web of ideas held together by the majority of human beings. Yet nobody has much of an idea of what it is. No team of social scientists has yet gone forth to do the global opinion survey that would tell us (at least those of us who believe in opinion surveys) what knowledge and values the world's 5.2 billion people share in common.

Friends and family, as well as my personal relationship with the Lord, are more important than anything else.

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.