Quotes about Value

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.