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“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells May Hands Values Ought Amount Library Possession Compare Disorder

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“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.”

Values Social Greater Greatness Depends Amount Mass Labor Productions Substance Relative Commodity Relative Value

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

Ends Values Amount Labor Aim Productions Motive Capitalist Exploits Surplus

Book:Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

“It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.”

Ifs Way Giving May Made Philosophy Certain Values Moral Principles Amount Genius Regard Lays Appeals Idiot Exception Old Fashioned Disregard Admitting Idiotic Moral Values

Book:On War

Source: On War

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.”

Values Amount Taxes Increase Raises Commodity Value Of Money

Book:The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.”

Men Certain Values Energy Money Pay Amount Promise Men And Women

Book:Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

“It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).”

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Author:Marjorie Hillis

“[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).”

Ifs Thinking Should Stills Values Term Views Amount Higher Paid Investing Seeking Sufficient Justify Illegal Immoral Speculation Redundant Fattening

Author:Warren Buffett

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.”

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.”

Believe Country Past Values Sound Levels Common Business Situation Taken Week Conditions Son Amount Destruction Fundamentals Investment My Son Continuing Warrants Purchasing

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”

Men Persons Values Money Rich Doubt Particular Amount Circumstances Thousand Equal Gains Determination Significant No Doubt Dependent Yield Items Utility Rich Man

Author:Daniel Bernoulli

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