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.

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

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

A 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.

Value is what you get.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

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.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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

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

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

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

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

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

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

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

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.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds 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?

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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

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

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.