Creating Value Quotes

Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that’s not the case with photography. To me, it’s a false way of creating value.

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You name it, anything so that business doesn’t have to do a better job of creating value for others – they can just get the system in their favor.

Oh, I’m all about small business. I think what we’ve learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who’s really creating value? It’s the small businesses.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation – without denying that certain issues exist.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

It’s also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you’re not creating value for others, customers, society, isn’t going to let you be around.

Don’t think of cost. Think of value.

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we’re creating value, that we’re helping improve people’s lives, and we benefit from it, so it’s a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy’s working. That’s what turns me on. That’s what keeps me going.

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.