Chip Conley Quotes

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

All my jewelry has stories.

The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

You've given me value, Dun­can. In my heart I know I mat­ter to you.