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

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

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

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.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

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

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Understand, 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.

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.

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

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

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.

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

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

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

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

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

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.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

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.

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

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Money often costs too much.

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.