Future Value Quotes

#1. Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

William Stanley Jevons

#2. The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

John Sculley

#3. I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Thomas Piketty

#4. Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.

J.R. Rim

#6. Many decisions are based on beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future value of the dollar.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.

Zoltan Kodaly

#9. To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Bill Crawford

#10. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of tomorrow's high-value organizations. They don't bring capital or expensive machinery, nor do they blindly follow instructions and merely contribute labor. Linchpins are indispensable, the driving force of our future.

Seth Godin

#11. We should never become so enamored with the future that we forget the value of the past.

Alyssa Rosenberg

D.S. Cahr

#12. As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Zainab Salbi

#13. A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Nelson Mandela

#14. If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species ... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.

Eban Goodstein

#16. Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.

Patrick Mendis

#17. No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Phil Harding

#18. As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

Dorothea Dix

#19. We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

Joseph Mailman

#20. But history teaches us nothing new. And should I choose to look ahead, to what is yet to come, why, I see a future made most toxic, born on the day society sets the value of wealth above that of lives.' Sandalath

Steven Erikson

#21. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#23. Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.

Isaac Asimov

#24. We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Robin Sacredfire

#25. Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Sylvia Plath

#26. Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

Peter Thiel

#27. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#28. high cash compensation teaches workers to claim value from the company as it already exists instead of investing their time to create new value in the future.

Peter Thiel

#29. Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Peter Singer

#30. Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.

Tarthang Tulku

#31. Time is a measurement of our past, present and future. Do you value your time or do you waste it.

Vicki Salter

#32. You've been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that's where the future ones are headed. Remember that. All the days to come will vanish thus. What value or meaning can they contain? We are hoarders of dust.

Petronius Jablonski

#33. As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

Michael Crichton

#34. The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

Bill Mollison

#35. The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Albert Camus

#36. Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Jozef Pilsudski

#37. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Stephen Young

#38. But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

Alan Thein Durning

#39. Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

Aswath Damodaran

#40. The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#41. I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

Carl Icahn

#42. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

Malala Yousafzai

#43. Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

Jackson Burnett

#44. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

Rex D. Pinegar

#45. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Haruki Murakami

#46. CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ambrose Bierce

#47. A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

Fela Durotoye

#48. When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Jules Verne

#49. You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.

Israelmore Ayivor

#50. Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.

Vikram Roy

#51. Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

Paul Hawken

#52. If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.

Seth Klarman

#53. The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Benjamin Graham

#54. Dream sets us on fire.
Dream gives us direction.
Dream betters our potential.
Dream helps us prioritize.
Dream adds value to our work and
life.
Dream colors our future.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#55. Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

Krishan Kumar

#56. In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value.

Larry R. Thompson

#57. I want you to live in confidence that when God looks at you, He sees beauty. He sees value. He sees hope. And that even when you're hiding, or when you're so beaten down you can't see anything clearly, He's still hard at work, crafting a beautiful future of relationship with Him and with others.

Tammy Maltby

#58. Success is won by those who believe in winning & then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many prepare? That is the big difference. A sound value system held water then, holds water today, and will hold water in the future.

Herb Brooks

#59. During the conflict that was placed before them, they not only gained the gratitude of many in their own generation but they proved, for the first time on a global scale, the enormous value of a woman's contribution, paving the way for future generations of women to do the same.

Kathryn J. Atwood

#60. Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

#61. Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.

Peter Thiel

#62. This low level inflation encourages economic growth; because it helps people to spend money rather than hoard it; since it will gradually lose value due to future inflation. On the other hand, inflation eats away at savings, so that savers experience a loss of wealth by stealth!

James C Johnson

#63. While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Stephen Bayley

#64. Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future,

Debasish Mridha

#65. The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Warren Buffett

#66. Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

George Noory

#67. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Elfriede Jelinek

#68. We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future

Dmitry Medvedev

#69. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Neil Gaiman

#70. It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone ... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

#71. Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society.

Noam Chomsky

#72. You've no future unless you add value, create projects.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#73. The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

Sarah Connor

#74. The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.

Dana Brunetti

#75. A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

Edwin Land

#76. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present

David J. Schwartz

#77. When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#78. The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

Bernard Baruch

#79. When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.

George Chuvalo

#80. A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it ...

Andre Breton

#81. If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Sara Sheridan

#82. The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.

Daniel Egger

#83. Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

Jessica Jackley

#84. The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#85. I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

Robert Walser

#86. It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#87. But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

Wallace D. Wattles

#88. The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts

Bertrand Russell

#89. The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

Charlie Munger

#90. The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.

Luther Burbank

#91. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

George Bernard Shaw

#92. The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.

David Allen

#93. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

Vanna Bonta

#94. The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us ... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

Octavio Paz

#95. The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Rollo May

#96. It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#97. A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

David Puttnam

#98. When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Dian Fossey

#99. The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
movement, a person that does not value its youth and
children does not deserve its future.

Oliver Tambo