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

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

There 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.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The 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.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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.

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

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Economic 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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Is 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.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

The 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.

Value is what you get.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I 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.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

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

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

A 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.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.