Value-driven Quotes

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.

I don't design down to a price.

When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

My decisions are motivated by my life, my values, and what I stand for, not what I can gain financially from it. This has weeded out the opportunities that I don't care about and has brought on a lot of new opportunities that mean everything to me.

I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.