Monetary Worth Quotes

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

A dollar approaches honesty as its purchasing power approaches stability.

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Everything has a price.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

That which costs little is less valued.

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Just pay my what I'm worth. I'm a fair guy, I'm not asking more than what I'm worth.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.