Value Perception Quotes

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

If you're going to charge someone for something, you have to show them value for it.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

Money is just an idea.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.

Money is only a human invention.

It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

That which costs little is less valued.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Money is really just an idea.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards the exterior; and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.