Value Quotes

• Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Done
  • Action

• Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Value
  • Growth

• Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Want
  • Value
  • Learn

• I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Judge
  • Honest
  • Advance

• For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Relationships

• We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Value

• I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Value

• To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

  

  Pierfrancesco Favino
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Hero

• I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. They just go and look it up or they just chat with someone. In other words, relying on something rather than saying: 'Okay, I've got the information, how do I create value from it?'

  

  Edward de Bono
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Effectiveness

• If the asset solves a real problem for a real customer, then there'll be value in the asset.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Real
  • Value

• I value my privacy a lot.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Value

• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Honestly
  • Absurd
  • Abstraction

• By the removal of the unnecessary mouths, and by extracting from the farmer the full value of the farm, a greater surplus, or what is the same thing, the price of a greater surplus, was obtained for the proprietor...

  

  Adam Smith
  • Value
  • Farmer

• Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • High
  • Style
  • Value

• In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • World
  • Universe

• Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Better
  • Sorry
  • Safe

• 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

• Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Values
  • Property
  • Private Property

• Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Writing
  • Value

• Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

  

  Dale E. Jones
  • High
  • Trust
  • Risk

• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  

  Stephen Hawking
  • Action
  • Value
  • Seek

• If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare.

  

  John Harsanyi
  • Value

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