Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The 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.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Books 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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.