Value Quotes

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

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 neither.

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 1988.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.