12 February 2017
Top 50 Value Quotes and Proverbs for Investment and Money
The following value quotes and proverbs have been mainly sorted chronologically by birth year of the author to let you see how man’s perspective on value and the value of money has changed over the centuries, although it is noteworthy that many of the more ancient sayings remain valid today.
Not cheap without reason, nor dear without value.
Afghan Proverb
If you have not been to two different bazaars,
then you do not know what the best value is.
African Proverb
A diamond doesn’t lose its value due to lack of admiration.
African Proverb
We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.
English Proverb
There’s little value in the single cow.
Irish Proverb
To know that candles are expensive
is of no value to the blind man.
Russian proverb
Whoever rides into the flood,
either does not own the animal or doesn’t value it.
A good neighbor increases the value of your property.
Czech Proverb
Value Quote: To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man - Russian proverbCollage of own and Shutterstock images; Foreground: HomeArt, Background: Soccerwidow
That which is cheap is dear.
Spanish Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
(c.551 BC–c.479 BC, Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher)
Haggling over every ounce in purchasing
may not reduce one’s cost of capital.
Tao Zhu Gong
(c.500 BC, Assistant to the Emperor of Yue, 9th Business Principle)
A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xunzi
(c.312 BC-c.230 BC, Chinese Confucian philosopher)
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
(c.170–160 BC, playwright of the Roman Republic)
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
(1st century BC, Latin writer of maxims)
Men do not value a good deed
unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
(43 BC-18 AD, Roman Poet)
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
(1533–1592, writer of the French Renaissance)
That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel De Cervantes
(1547-1616,Spanish novelist, poet and playwright)
Fortune is like the market, where, many times,
if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author)
All that glitters is not gold.
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616, Playwright and bard)
Things only have the value that we give them.
Molière
(1622-1673, French actor and playwright)
Beware of little expenses;
a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790, a Founding Father of the United States)
Money is the seed of money,
and the first guinea is sometimes
more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778, French political philosopher and writer)
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
(1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer)
There can be no rise in the value of labour
without a fall of profits.
David Ricardo
(1772-1823, British political economist and stock trader)
The alchemists in their search for gold
discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860, German philosopher and writer)
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx
(1818-1883, Prussian-German philosopher and revolutionary socialist)
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world.
You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
(1829-1900, American writer)
October: This is one of the particularly dangerous
months to invest in stocks.
Other dangerous months are
July, January, September, April, November,
May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
(1835-1910, American humorist and writer)
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge
(1860-1954, English author, and Anglican priest)
The chief value of money lies in the fact
that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956, American journalist and critic)
Every positive value has its price in negative terms…
the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973, Spanish painter, sculptor, and stage designer)
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D Eisenhower
(1890-1969, 34th President of the United States)
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock
that would triple its value every year.
I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
Claude D. Pepper
(1900-1989, United States senator, politician and attorney)
There are a great many people accumulating
what they think is vast wealth,
but it’s only money…
they don’t know how to enjoy it,
because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
(1915-1973, English philosopher, writer and speaker)
Time is more value than money.
You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
(1930-2009, American entrepreneur and author)
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
(*1930, American business magnate, investor and philanthropist)
You must look within for value,
but must look beyond for perspective.
Denis Waitley
(*1933, American motivational speaker and writer)
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
Edward de Bono
(*1933, Maltese physician, author, inventor, and consultant)
Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange,
brought into being by traders
who discovered that a reliable medium
could facilitate trades that were more difficult
or even impossible by barter alone.
Lawrence W. Reed
(*1953, American president of the Foundation for Economic Education)
A price is something you get.
A cost is something you lose.
Lois McMaster Bujold
(*1949, American writer)
Currencies fluctuate; commodity prices fluctuate.
Why should we expect
earnings to rise in a straight line upwards?
William G. Shenkir
(University of Virginia commerce professor and writer)
(Value) investing is not a paint-by-numbers exercise.
Skepticism and judgment are always required.
Seth Klarman
(*1957, American billionaire and founder of the Baupost Group)
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
(*1968, American professional computer programmer)
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
Unknown
A boy becomes a man when he stops
asking his father for money and requests a loan.
Unknown
Not cheap without reason, nor dear without value.
Afghan Proverb
If you have not been to two different bazaars,
then you do not know what the best value is.
African Proverb
A diamond doesn’t lose its value due to lack of admiration.
African Proverb
We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.
English Proverb
There’s little value in the single cow.
Irish Proverb
To know that candles are expensive
is of no value to the blind man.
Russian proverb
Whoever rides into the flood,
either does not own the animal or doesn’t value it.
A good neighbor increases the value of your property.
Czech Proverb
Value Quote: To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man - Russian proverbCollage of own and Shutterstock images; Foreground: HomeArt, Background: Soccerwidow
That which is cheap is dear.
Spanish Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
(c.551 BC–c.479 BC, Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher)
Haggling over every ounce in purchasing
may not reduce one’s cost of capital.
Tao Zhu Gong
(c.500 BC, Assistant to the Emperor of Yue, 9th Business Principle)
A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xunzi
(c.312 BC-c.230 BC, Chinese Confucian philosopher)
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
(c.170–160 BC, playwright of the Roman Republic)
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
(1st century BC, Latin writer of maxims)
Men do not value a good deed
unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
(43 BC-18 AD, Roman Poet)
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
(1533–1592, writer of the French Renaissance)
That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel De Cervantes
(1547-1616,Spanish novelist, poet and playwright)
Fortune is like the market, where, many times,
if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author)
All that glitters is not gold.
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616, Playwright and bard)
Things only have the value that we give them.
Molière
(1622-1673, French actor and playwright)
Beware of little expenses;
a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790, a Founding Father of the United States)
Money is the seed of money,
and the first guinea is sometimes
more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778, French political philosopher and writer)
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
(1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer)
There can be no rise in the value of labour
without a fall of profits.
David Ricardo
(1772-1823, British political economist and stock trader)
The alchemists in their search for gold
discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860, German philosopher and writer)
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx
(1818-1883, Prussian-German philosopher and revolutionary socialist)
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world.
You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
(1829-1900, American writer)
October: This is one of the particularly dangerous
months to invest in stocks.
Other dangerous months are
July, January, September, April, November,
May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
(1835-1910, American humorist and writer)
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge
(1860-1954, English author, and Anglican priest)
The chief value of money lies in the fact
that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956, American journalist and critic)
Every positive value has its price in negative terms…
the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973, Spanish painter, sculptor, and stage designer)
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D Eisenhower
(1890-1969, 34th President of the United States)
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock
that would triple its value every year.
I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
Claude D. Pepper
(1900-1989, United States senator, politician and attorney)
There are a great many people accumulating
what they think is vast wealth,
but it’s only money…
they don’t know how to enjoy it,
because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
(1915-1973, English philosopher, writer and speaker)
Time is more value than money.
You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
(1930-2009, American entrepreneur and author)
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
(*1930, American business magnate, investor and philanthropist)
You must look within for value,
but must look beyond for perspective.
Denis Waitley
(*1933, American motivational speaker and writer)
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
Edward de Bono
(*1933, Maltese physician, author, inventor, and consultant)
Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange,
brought into being by traders
who discovered that a reliable medium
could facilitate trades that were more difficult
or even impossible by barter alone.
Lawrence W. Reed
(*1953, American president of the Foundation for Economic Education)
A price is something you get.
A cost is something you lose.
Lois McMaster Bujold
(*1949, American writer)
Currencies fluctuate; commodity prices fluctuate.
Why should we expect
earnings to rise in a straight line upwards?
William G. Shenkir
(University of Virginia commerce professor and writer)
(Value) investing is not a paint-by-numbers exercise.
Skepticism and judgment are always required.
Seth Klarman
(*1957, American billionaire and founder of the Baupost Group)
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
(*1968, American professional computer programmer)
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
Unknown
A boy becomes a man when he stops
asking his father for money and requests a loan.
Unknown
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