Ludwig von Mises Quotes

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

You can never tell what ships are worth.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

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

Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.