Value Quotes

Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

Nothing of value is free.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

It's not hard to be valuable when you are a monopoly.

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A drop of oil is worth a drop of blood.