Value Quotes

• Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Book
  • Learning
  • Littles

• Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Value

• I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Great
  • Value
  • Dark

• Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Value

• It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.

  

  T.R. Reid
  • Good
  • Business
  • Value

• Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Up
  • Money
  • Value

• The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

  

  Cliff Curtis
  • Life
  • Value

• I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • Value
  • Applications
  • Silicon Valley

• You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

  

  James Altucher
  • Real
  • Money
  • Imagination

• God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Real
  • True
  • Challenge

• Are we all unhappy with our true selves, and likes and follows are what give us value?

  

  Benny Cassette
  • True
  • Value

• All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It's because... for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value equals price, convenience, and a little bit of brand.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Why
  • Value

• The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

  

  Dennis Holme Robertson
  • Money
  • Gold
  • Irrelevant

• Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Value

• I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Value
  • Diamond

• Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • True
  • Question
  • Winning

• People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Value

• I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

  

  Jason Kilar
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Consult
  • Butcher
  • Vegetarianism

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