Top 1200 Relative Value Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

Freedom is relative.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

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

Everything in life is relative.

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That's where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Normal is all relative.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

All progression is in the relative world.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.

The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

I think evil is very relative.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

The health care provisions are presumably for individuals. And whoever pays for them, whether it's paid by the individual, state, whatever, the value is an individually based value. It has nothing to do with employment.

Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

Time has only a relative existence.

Unreasonable is very relative.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

A.P., like the rest of India, has huge potential to move up the value chain by investing in small and medium enterprises to create more value addition and better paid jobs.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

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.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.