VALUE QUOTES II
quotations about value
Value is more than just a lower price.
PHIL HARDWICK
"It's all about value", Mississippi Business Journal, May 4, 2017
Things have value
Because somebody buys them,
Because somebody pays money;
If you can find a buyer,
Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
KOBO ABE
The Ghost is Here
Not cheap without reason, nor dear without value.
AFGHAN PROVERB
Once you pull the trigger, you have to realize that the current value is not the price that you paid, but rather the price that you would realize upon sale. It's what the next investor is willing to pay you for the asset.
JONATHAN HELLER
"Value Is Always in the Eye of the Beholder", The Street, March 27, 2017
The dead do not know the value of white sheets.
HAITIAN PROVERB
Gold is the corpse of value.
NEAL STEPHENSON
Cryptonomicon
The value of a thing is always found by comparing it with other things.
ALFRED BISHOP MASON & JOHN JOSEPH LALOR
The Primer of Political Economy
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
JOE BIDEN
attributed, Social Policy for Effective Practice
"Value" is an abstract adjective.... Fundamental-to-price ratios are "historical" and "accounting-based" and thus don't really reflect the true, underlying economics of the companies. You still need to have a pair of human eyes.
U-WEN KOK
"The dirty truth about value investing", CNBC, May 4, 2017
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.
JEAN RHYS
Quartet
It is important to understand that not all "value" is created equally. In fact, seasoned value investors know that "cheap stocks" generally look that way for a reason.
JON C. OGG
"Value or Value Trap", 24/7 Wall St, May 2, 2017
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
For what you value, you experience [snaps fingers] immediately. And the world will bow down and say, Very well. You have let us know what you value. We will mirror it back to you, because we love you, because we're a part of you.
JAYEM
The Way of the Heart
Value is an accidental property.
GEORGE FARQUHAR GRAHAM
attributed, Day's Collacon
A thing's value rests upon this recognition of its fitness to serve human purposes.
JOHN S. CHIPMAN
German Utility Theory: Analysis and Translations
Things have no value in themselves, only opinion and fashion give them value.
NICHOLAS BARBON
attributed, Provocative and Contemplative Quotations
Feeding what you value can be difficult, not because it is inherently so but because there is a strong undertow to the contrary. We are feeding what seems to provide financial security, what protects us from facing the truth, what keeps us comfortable, what keeps things familiar. When you are feeding what you value, you begin to crack the code to the combination lock on your sacred power.
DEBRENA JACKSON GANDY
All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real
Achieving success requires you to figure out what you value and fundamentally care about. Without this anchor, it can be all too easy to bounce aimlessly from one distraction to the next.
DEEP PATEL
"11 Nonnegotiable Rules High Achievers Live By", Forbes, April 12, 2017
Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.
KARL MARX
Value, Price, and Profit
Value is the most subjective thing we know. Your brain is constantly searching for a good deal. All the way from underpriced shares to your next potential hot life companion, to whether you can exchange a teeny mortgaged villa in Ponsonby for a debt-free mansion with five acres in Havelock North.
CAROLINE RITCHIE
"Bay offers great value in eye of this beholder", New Zealand Herald, April 23, 2017