Quotes for Values

Jokes for jokes' sake are kind of meaningless to me. I understand the value of them, but it doesn't speak to me as much. You can lace your argument with jokes, but tell me why you're presenting this argument. What does it mean?

Hasan Minhaj

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Arthur Miller

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.

Nell Scovell

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Andrea Bocelli

In pharma, we continuously look for acquisitions... if it makes strategic sense and if there is any value.

Ajay Piramal

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

Michael D. Higgins

The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.

Bhavish Aggarwal

For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

Alex Berenson

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

Clayton M. Christensen

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Solomon Ortiz

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

Margaret Trudeau

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

Bernard Hopkins

Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.

Richard Cohen

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

Evan Spiegel

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucille Ball

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn