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

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

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

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 dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

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

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The 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.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

There 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.

Value is what you get.

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

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.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

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

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

The real minimum wage is zero.

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

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

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 problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Economists 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.

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

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

The 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.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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