value comparison Quotes

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

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?

Products are valued higher than services.

Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

Mettals are very necessary for many Uses, and are to be reckon'd among the Fruits and Manufactories of the World. And of these, Gold and Silver being by nature very fine, and more scarce than others, are higher prized; and a little of them is very reasonably esteem'd equal in value with a great quantity of other Mettals, etc. For which reason, and moreover that they are imperishable, as well as convenient for easie stowage and removal, and not from any Laws, they are made a Standard, or common Measure to deal with; and all Mankind concure in it, as every one knows, therefore I need not enlarge further in this matter.

[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

Those that go into a foreign plantation, their industry there is worth more than if they stayed at home, the product of their labor being in commodities of a superior nature to those of this country. For instance, what is an improved acre in Jamaica or Barbados worth to an improved acre in England? We know it is three times the value

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

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

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.