Value Quotes
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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.
Douglas Rushkoff -
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
David Ricardo
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When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument — as we do — and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
James Callaghan -
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.
Jens Martin Skibsted -
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
Brad Pitt -
Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
Scarlett Johansson -
You can't value others until you value yourself.
Caroline Ghosn
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Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
George M. Whitesides -
You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.
Janet Evanovich -
There are no doubts in the value of Juventus. Many things, such as the new stadium, have strengthened the club.
John Elkann -
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham -
You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.
Kurt Busch
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Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
S. S. Van Dine -
It helps enormously to have had a loving mother. Mothers can give their daughters permission to love their fathers. Mothers can help their daughters feel good about becoming mothers. Mothers can help daughters learn the value of openness and female friendship, especially when times are bad
Victoria Secunda -
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
People will value you for your transparency, your decency and your sense of purpose.
Ajaypal Singh Banga -
I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.
Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction -
Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
Vernon L. Smith
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There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
Natalie Portman -
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James -
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.
Martine Syms -
Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.
Joe Lonsdale