Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Noam ChomskyThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungTo an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George OrwellLife being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John RuskinThe first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas SowellSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert EinsteinThe demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand RussellFor every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy BuffettThe alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur SchopenhauerThings don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve JobsThe dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
Robert KiyosakiThe climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.
Greta ThunbergA wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel JohnsonEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Herbert HooverFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. ClarkeIs science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. FeynmanThe idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard P. FeynmanSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas SowellLife is precious.
John KennedyMeasure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
Billy GrahamIt’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Billie EilishTerrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Christopher HitchensThe product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl MarxMake yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. KennedyBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonThere is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand RussellI know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.
Barack ObamaThere is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David ThoreauThere can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret ThatcherThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MenckenThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillEconomists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Vivienne WestwoodThe problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald ReaganThe true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
Richard BransonWe get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Jim RohnTaxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry PratchettEconomic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren BuffettA little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John RuskinSocialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
Robert KiyosakiI have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
Angelina JolieWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesYou need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
Elon MuskThe secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
George LucasYou will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen HawkingIf everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
John LennonUnderstand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony BourdainCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawYou don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim RohnStrive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert EinsteinTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert EinsteinA shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
Thomas SowellNow financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Noam ChomskyA thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin