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There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Conquest of Happiness
"Value" has no meaning other than in relationship to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—"market value" is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Starship Troopers
Only loss teaches us about the value of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
ANTONIO MACHADO, as quoted in Gloria Swardenski's Got 90 Seconds
Price is what you pay and value is what you get.
WARREN BUFFETT, as quoted in Robert P. Miles' Warren Buffett Wealth
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RAND, The Virtue of Selfishness
The dead do not know the value of white sheets.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Things have value
- Because somebody buys them,
- Because somebody pays money;
- If you can find a buyer,
- Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
KOBO ABE, The Ghost is Here
The greatest value of an object lies not in its possession, but anticipation; and the covetousness of all things far exceeds their true worth.
ANTHONY LISLE, The Westminster Review, Jan. 1914
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
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