Value Quotes

• An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Power
  • Value

• I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• I personally wonder... regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, everybody comes into every conversation with a particular worldview and things that you believe are right or wrong. The question is can you counsel from a totally non-value-based position?

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Believe
  • Question
  • Religious

• It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Value
  • Profound

• Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

  

  Anthony Marais
  • Love
  • Pain
  • For Her

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Value

• The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • People
  • Food
  • Quality

• The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Human
  • Liberation

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Value
  • Company
  • Size

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Commitment
  • Compassion

• The biblical view is not just apolitical but antipolitical in the sense that it refuses to confer any value on political power, or in the sense that it regards political power as idolatrous.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Power
  • Political
  • Value

• I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Work
  • College
  • Value

• You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Time
  • Money
  • Pretty

• Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Value

• Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Value

• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Importance
  • Dignity
  • Virtues

• Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Words
  • Values
  • Yoga

• It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • Good
  • Food
  • Value

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