quotations about value
All share transactions have two parties with differing value points. Large institutional offshore buyers of a certain software stock, for example, which was news of the week for some reason, do not run around afterwards crying into their gin and tonics that they paid too much. An individual in Orakei borrowing more than he earns to buy rapidly depreciating European cars must find it highly pleasing on a certain level at the local village show and tell. Or maybe we can put that one down to hormones. Nevertheless, value will always be in the eye of the observer.
CAROLINE RITCHIE
"Bay offers great value in eye of this beholder", New Zealand Herald, April 23, 2017
There is no such thing as a measuring unit of value, and this fact means that measuring the value of a thing is impossible.
THOMAS C. TAYLOR
An Introduction to Austrian Economics
"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
That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote