Quotes About Relative Value

#1. Only very odd people don't realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.

John Gardner

#2. Young men most needed experience. They could not play well if they trusted to a general rule. Every card had a relative value. Principles had better be left aside; values were enough.

Henry Adams

#3. For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Eric Fellner

#4. Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Sydney Madwed

#5. A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Karl Marx

#6. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Dean Inge

#7. What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

Ilchi Lee

#8. Algebra was far more interesting when it was a matter of proportioning out mutton chops so as to poison only half of one's dinner guests and then determining the relative value of purchasing a more expensive, yet more effective, antidote over a home remedy.

Gail Carriger

#9. It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Hu Shih

#10. The more you know, the less you learn.

You

#11. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

#12. Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

Cus D'Amato

#13. Humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don't have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth. Rather, we focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly.

Dan Ariely

#14. The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.

Timothy Ferriss

#15. It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

Gary Hamel

#16. I don't like people much - they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway.

Michelle Sagara

#17. The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

Robert Nozick

#19. You May Understand The Value of Time Well During Pressure. It's Totally A Relative Matter ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#20. Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

John W. Snow

#21. First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Augusto De Luca

#22. Let's play a little game just between you and I. Obviously physical. You gotta use your mind.

Miguel

#23. The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

David O. McKay

#24. It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#25. As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

#26. Caution is always prudent. But we mustn't let fear pave the way of our feet." -Riyah

Jackie Castle

#27. In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life

Ilchi Lee

#28. You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

Adrian Tomine

#29. Never let it be said I failed to take advantage of a lady in distress.

Stephen King

#30. Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

Solange Knowles

#31. Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.

Jonathan Maberry

#32. Benny Anger: What's up, doc?
Doc Manhattan: "Up" is a relative concept; it has no intrinsic value.

Alan Moore

#33. Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Nathan Goldstein

#34. The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#35. Excellent value relative to the week investment of time ... To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

William Wrigley Jr.

#36. It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

#38. When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.

Peter Schiff