Quotes about Value

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.

treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

Scarcity, as we've seen, is the secret to value. If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Low price is the last refuge of a marketer who has run out of generous ideas.

If you seek to become indispensable, a similar question is worth asking: "Where do you put the fear?" What separates a linchpin from an ordinary person is the answer to this question.

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.