Value Quotes

• Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Joy
  • Courage
  • Survival

• The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • May
  • Value
  • Struggle

• People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Music
  • Quality

• Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Depression

• Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Stop
  • Pieces
  • Consumers

• In economic surveys of households, many variables have the following characteristics: The variable has a lower, or upper, limit and takes on the limiting value for a substantial number of respondents. For the remaining respondents, the variable takes on a For the remaining respondents, the variable takes on a wide range of values above, or below, the limit.

  

  James Tobin
  • Value

• Cortana, which is this nice lady, a digital lady, which you can actually use and talk to on Windows 10... You can interact with your life, your mission, your work, and add value to it.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nice

• What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Value

• ... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

  

  Charles H. Percy
  • Time
  • Heart
  • American

• I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • Believe
  • Value

• Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Fun
  • Die
  • Dirty

• I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Up
  • Value

• Labor is the true standard of value.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Value
  • Labor
  • Standard

• When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

  

  Donald Sterling
  • Value
  • Winning

• Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Man
  • Woman

• 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

• Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

  

  George Packer
  • Long
  • Value

• It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Time
  • Value

• The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Money
  • Value

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

  

  Michael A. Stackpole
  • Value
  • Happenings
  • Negotiation

• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Value
  • Logic

• We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Health
  • Value
  • Benefits

• One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Value
  • Judging

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