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“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.”

Men Doe Matter Hands Form Values Process Results Economic Objects Materials Benefits Transformation Productions Handle Contact Producers Consumers Location Availability

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.”

People Knows Way Might Values Player Team Benefits Relate Great Team Team Player

Author:John C. Maxwell

“In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.”

“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.”

Men Eye Law Values Fiction Equal Benefits Humorous Constant Every Man Operations Pleasant Pockets Smallest Furniture

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Ideas Able Certain Values Existence Security Figures Source Benefits Increase Investment Currents Investors Quotations Decrease Appraisal

Author:Benjamin Graham

“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.”

Country Would Be Values Poor Pay Revolution Degrees Benefits Discovery Concerned Soldier Delight Payment Newton Enchanted Milton

Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

“At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.”

Source: Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895

“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”

Long Action Values Evil Moral Taken Benefits Oneself Altruism Criteria Moral Values Beneficiaries Anything Goes

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader