117 quotes
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauMake yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
Henny YoungmanI do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
Robert KiyosakiThere 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.
Bertrand RussellThere 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.
Henry David ThoreauAs everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.
David ByrneBooks 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.
Thomas JeffersonAs 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.
Nipsey HussleWe must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
Narendra ModiI 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.
Joyce MeyerThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MenckenBeauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard ShawFriendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert HubbardBeauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOld is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
Billy GrahamGold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!
Mr. TA thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John RuskinTrust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.
Wayne DyerThe value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMeasure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
Dwayne JohnsonI 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.
Barack ObamaNothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl MarxGulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. BushMachines 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.
Bertrand RussellThe glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas JeffersonThe 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.
Henry David ThoreauIt’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?
David ByrneYour ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond TutuWe 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.
Karl MarxWhat is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.
Robert KiyosakiNothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard ShawCapital 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.
Karl MarxA 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.
Samuel JohnsonDriving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Bill GatesRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TolkienI 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.
Richard P. FeynmanTo 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.
Samuel JohnsonA little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John RuskinUnderstand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony BourdainGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
Matthew McConaugheySomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfGood 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.
Steven WrightBetween 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.
Samuel JohnsonThe idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard P. FeynmanTo an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George OrwellKnow your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
Kanye WestBounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel JohnsonIs 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.
Richard P. FeynmanWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheA great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich NietzscheLife being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John RuskinIt’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will RogersIntellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill GatesHe that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson