Value Quotes
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The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.
Arancha Gonzalez
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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.
Thomas Hobbes
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To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.
John Darnielle
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The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.
John Sculley
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
Jo Brand
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A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
Nell Scovell
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our strategy is to provide even more value to users and tie the Venmo community into the PayPal merchant marketplace so that they can use Venmo to buy things.
Dan Schulman
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The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
Jean Baudrillard
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I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
Jeff Lemire
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The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.
John Battelle
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Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."
T. Harv Eker
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Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.
Kenneth Fisher
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Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
Seth Godin
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For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.
Mark V. Hurd
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Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.
Hanne Blank
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Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.
Barack Obama
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
Alister E. McGrath
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
John Catsimatidis
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When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.
Kevin Costner
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Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
Haruki Murakami