Value Assessment Quotes

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

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

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

Not everything that counts can be counted.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be