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My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
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.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.
Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.
I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
The 'Rule of St. Benedict' makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.
It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.
Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational... tt is not a rational currency in that case.
You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
I don't want to work with directors who use music only to accentuate sound effects. I want to work with people who give music the value it deserves.
My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.
The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.
You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.
What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.