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

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

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

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

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.

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

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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

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.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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.

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

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

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

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

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

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

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

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

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

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

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

The real minimum wage is zero.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

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.