Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
—Spanish Proverb
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
—French Proverb
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Actor, Comedian, Writer
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers’ hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
—John Webster (1580–1634) English Dramatist, Poet
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
—J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
The best thing in life aren’t things.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Something you don’t want is dear at any price.
—Common Proverb
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
—Common Proverb
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
That which costs little is less valued.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Scholar, Novelist, Satirist
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
—Ask Ann Landers (1918–2002) American Advice Columnist
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1921–2000) American Sociologist
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
What you get free costs too much.
—Jean Anouilh (1910–87) French Dramatist
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
You are only worth has much as you have.
—Common Proverb
The only salvation of the world today… is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
—Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Czech Dramatist, Statesman
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
—Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932–2007) Polish Journalist
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of a disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
—Samuel Butler
A thing is worth precisely what it can do for you; not what you choose to pay for it.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic