What is the true value of the money in your pockets? Indeed, what is ‘value’ and what does investment value or value in business really mean?
To answer these questions we have sourced 50 intelligent quotes, sayings and proverbs about the measurement of value and the value of money.
The following value quotes and proverbs have been sorted chronologically by birth year of the author to let you see how man’s perspective on value has changed over the centuries.
It is noteworthy that many of the more ancient sayings remain valid today. Enjoy!
Better a diamond
with a flaw
than a pebble without.
Confucius
politician and philosopher)
Haggling over every ounce
in purchasing
may not reduce
one’s cost of capital.
Tao Zhu Gong
9th Business Principle)
A person is born
with a liking for profit.
Xunzi
Riches get their value
from the mind
of the possessor;
they are blessings
to those
who know how to use them,
and curses to those who do not.
Terence
Everything is worth
what its purchaser
will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
Men do not value
a good deed
unless
it brings a reward.
Ovid
Although gold dust is precious,
when it gets in your eyes
it obstructs your vision.
Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang
Those things
that are dearest to us
have cost us the most.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
That
which costs little
is less valued.
Miguel De Cervantes
poet and playwright)
Fortune is like the market,
where, many times,
if you can stay a little,
the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
statesman, scientist, jurist and author)
