Non-Monetary Value Quotes

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

I can be bought, but not bored.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

I love to champion some of the hardworking actors where, it's been said to me, they don't bring money. But to me, they bring everything. They bring their wonderful selves.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. There are all kinds of other things that we are not supposed to sell - political influence being one of them. We too rarely have public conversations about the common sense of money. We too rarely talk about the human cost of putting some of these economic measures into effect.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.