Value Quotes
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
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Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
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What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.
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By precipitating change, you'll create value. Those that do this best will win.
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Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
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A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
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Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
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If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.
