Value equals benefits received for burdens endured.
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.
No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy. . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.
The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.
We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.
Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.
Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. They can admit when they're wrong.
If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.
We should. . . be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.