Quotes about Value

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a "burden" to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they become a "burden" to their parents. All societies in history would regard these two sins as two of the most heartless and inhuman possible sins. To kill your parents is to kill yourself, your own past; and to kill your children is to kill yourself, your own future.

The root reason for this is the denial of the human essence, the human equality, the human family—judging people's worth only by how efficiently or intelligently or quickly they function. This is confusing the essence with the nonessential.