Value Quotes

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

Don't think of cost. Think of value.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.