quotations about value
When the value of a thing is said to be half-a-crown, or any other sum, is it exclusively meant, that the article in question is worth so much precious metal? Certainly not; it merely means, that the amalgam of ownerage and toilerage constituting that article, is equal to the amalgam of ownership and toilerage constituting that half-crown, or, that any other sum. Value is therefore, in fact, an abstract, and not a relative quality, for it is evidently the mere habit of expression that gives it an apparently comparative character.
JOHN BELLENDEN KER
Statics of Statu-quo Permanency; Or, The Maximum of Taxability Made a Measure of the Durability of Any Present Order of Things
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.
KARL MARX
Value, Price, and Profit
Labor is the true standard of value.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech in Pittsburgh, PA, February 15, 1861
Knowing what consumers truly value is crucial to how suppliers create, package, market and deliver their goods and services.
ANONYMOUS
"Value added -- definition and meaning", Market Business News, April 30, 2017
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it
Because we see it; but what we do not see
We tread upon and never think of it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
The problem is that the way we exchange money captures value in only two dimensions. In truth, value is being created everywhere. Let your eyes linger on an ad in the subway, and value has been created. Tweet a popular hashtag. Turn on the lights. Sign in using Facebook. Report traffic on Waze. Tell someone your secret.... In this new world, our value is something we carry around with us, that belongs to us and us alone (unless we opt to trade it). Value is captured in as many dimensions as reality. The representation of value that exists on the virtual plane becomes so rich with data that virtual becomes flush with real.
CONSENSYS
"Blockchain Technology Has The Power to Let Us Build An Entirely New Internet", Futurism, April 27, 2017
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN
The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
Value is arguably the leading exhibit in the factor zoo. Quantifying the value factor is challenging, however, for multi-asset class portfolios.
JAMES PICERNO
"Quantifying The Value Premium Across Asset Classes", Seeking Alpha, April 27, 2017
All intelligent investing is value investing -- acquiring more than you are paying for.
CHARLES MUNGER
attributed, Money Quotes: More than 400 money, investing and saving quotes from billionaires, investors, entrepreneurs, actors, economists, and many others
To feed what you value, to align your energy, attention, time, and resources with what you say is important to you, starts to bring your power out of hiding. lt takes courage because most people are in a cultural trance where contradiction is the norm. There is a lot of cultural validation for living a life where you feed what you don't value instead of what you do. There is a lot of validation for remaining in the trance.
DEBRENA JACKSON GANDY
All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real
The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Something that is yours forever is never precious.
CHAIM POTOK
My Name Is Asher Lev
The value of a thing is estimated from the advantages supposed to be derived from it, and depends very much upon time, place, and circumstances.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
The value of a thing is as variable as the humors and circumstances of men; it may be nothing or something very great in the same object, at the same time, in the eyes of different men.
GEORGE CRABB
attributed, Day's Collacon
A house would have no value if no one wanted to buy it, or it had smoke damage and was unlivable, or if plenty of houses were available or it could not be sold because of deed restrictions.
PHIL HARDWICK
"It's all about value", Mississippi Business Journal, May 4, 2017
In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
letter to Madame Brillon, November 10, 1779
Value is often in the eye of the beholder, and while we use ratios, metrics, and other biases to help determine what might be cheap, there are no hard-and-fast rules.
JONATHAN HELLER
"Value Is Always in the Eye of the Beholder", The Street, March 27, 2017
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
ADA LEVERSON
Tenterhooks
All share transactions have two parties with differing value points. Large institutional offshore buyers of a certain software stock, for example, which was news of the week for some reason, do not run around afterwards crying into their gin and tonics that they paid too much. An individual in Orakei borrowing more than he earns to buy rapidly depreciating European cars must find it highly pleasing on a certain level at the local village show and tell. Or maybe we can put that one down to hormones. Nevertheless, value will always be in the eye of the observer.
CAROLINE RITCHIE
"Bay offers great value in eye of this beholder", New Zealand Herald, April 23, 2017