“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
“And who s to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”
“Value is more expensive than price.”
“You only value something if you know it’ll end.”
“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.”
“But what s worth more than gold? Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren t you worth more than that?”
“Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that s because my pearls are black, hers were white.”
“In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.”
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
“Sometimes in life we make the mistake of hearing valuable information without listening.”
“Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.”
“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone s pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.”
“I d sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.”
“Everyone gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve.”
“Timpul este o valoare obiectivă și e plasat cert în afara noastră.”
“Some times in life as children of God. We make the mistake of valuing money more than our creator.”