Value Quotes
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My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.
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We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.
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That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.
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The real underlying value comes if you can put a company back into a running state and it becomes a successful viable entity if it continues to repay loans.
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It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
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Think about it. Are you a better version of yourself every year? Are you still running your mind on version 1.0 or have you upgraded to version 3.0? Do you create more value with new ideas, knowledge and skills constantly?
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Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
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We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.
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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
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I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.
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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.
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Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
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It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa. … It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.
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There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.
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We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for.
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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.
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
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We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
