Value Quotes

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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because… — Warren Buffett
Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value. — Warren Buffett
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. — John Buchan
The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel… — John William Strutt
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are… — William Trevor
Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will… — Isaac Asimov
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can… — Laozi
The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This… — Laozi
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something. — Bob Weir
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament,… — Zhuangzi
Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have… — Margaret Prescott Montague
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity. — Pitirim Sorokin
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls… — Barbara Kingsolver
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for… — Gregory S. Paul
All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it. — Thornton T. Munger
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can… — Benjamin Franklin
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda

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