1,992 Quotes About Value

Fearlessness. The hack for adults who had lost this quality was to buy cheap things. When there was no pressure to break an expensive object, one then used it, beats it up, and made it theirs. Overly fragile possessions we’re afraid of breaking almost always resulted in never being used. This may apply with people, too.

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.

You think it didn’t cost you anything because it didn’t cost money. What doesn’t cost money cost something more valuable.

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

Inflation destroys the value of your savings while Bitcoin protects them.

The true measure of wealth is not possessions but what riches you leave behind for the world.

Like its value, money’s ability to control others, or to make them envious, is not affected by how it was made.

In days long past, Jarod said he’d write a sentence about my love, translated in Russian, and that sentence, like my love, is clearly not for sale, unlike his virginity, or this book, which I’m both offering at ten times the market value, so hurry up and buy now, before it goes down.

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!