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.

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

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.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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.

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?

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.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Value is what you get.

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.

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

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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.

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

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.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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

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.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

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.

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

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

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

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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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