Value Determination Quotes

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

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Every thing receives a value from its use, and the Value is raised [or lowered], according to its Quality, Quantity and Demand.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

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

Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rates higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.