Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.
Wealth is created from creating value.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.
Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.
Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.
To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.
All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.
So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.
South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.
