The knowledge of secrets is a very enticing ship, a very tempting voyage, and one thinks that the highest attainment in life is to find out hidden truths, to seek out what is truth, to...

I’ve been on shows that go for shock value.

As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value...

I just don’t buy the story that Zucker will walk away, because he’ll trash his own holdings. There’s some value there and I think someone will get it.

Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.

The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher....

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Certainly if you bought it last March, it was cheap. It was a value stock. It is generally regarded as a well-run company with a big return on investment. Buffett likes beaten-up names and things...

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it’s covered by so much dirt that it’s a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

The move to value pricing offered (price) declines that just weren’t great enough to attract buyers,

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

The truth is – people won’t believe you, they won’t care for you, they won’t give you time or attention, but once you do something that is ‘big’ in their eyes, you will get it...

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar’s trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of...

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They...

No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never...

The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you...

You will not invest in yourself if you think you are not worth it

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a...

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

Live without restraint. Remember to be beautiful, to be LOVE, to be yourself, to accept your self. You don’t need to be accepted by others. Be free to find the beauty and value in all...

Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a...

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the...

I like to meet people and pretend I’ll never see them again. I tend to value things more if I think it’s the last time I’ll get to enjoy it. I’ll savor every moment I...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in...

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

If I found money, I’d turn it in—for the reward. Unless the reward money was less than the value of the money I found, and obviously it would be, in which case I’d keep the...

Something this famous has no value left,

It’s rather good value when you consider that, two weeks ago, the best five-year fix was 4.69 per cent from the Portman building society. The [Woolwich deal] has no extended redemption penalties, is available up...

enhance operational effectiveness and shareholder value.

So therefore, when determining the value of your vehicle for insurance purposes, be it based on the reasonable retail value or market value of the vehicle, it is critical to include this ‘difference’ in that...

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that...

[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and...

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have...

To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult...

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The...

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.

You only value something if you know it’ll end.

I do give them to you,” he announced. “Of my free will. Because this is my sword.” He laid a hand on Arisa’s shoulder. “And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces...

I’m not rich in paper money, I’m rich in packets of sugar. Actually, I’m richer, because at least the packets of sugar have some real value.

It doesn’t matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is – what matters is its relative ‘share of customer value’ in the final product or...

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and...

We’ve made a bid of ‘£600,000 but until Dons need to get realistic about his value, it’s on the back burner.

The turnover in housing has a strong relationship with remodeling activity. You want to keep up with the value of your investment because it is appreciating.

If I’m a lush at anything, it’s food and drink. I’m not materialistic in any way, but I value food.