All that glitters
is not gold.
William Shakespeare
Things only have the value
that we give them.
Molière
Beware of little expenses;
a small leak
will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
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
We do not know
what really good
or bad fortune is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only
that gives everything
its value.
Thomas Paine
political theorist and writer)
There can be no rise
in the value of labour
without a fall
of profits.
David Ricardo
economist and stock trader)
The alchemists
in their search for gold
discovered many other things
of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing can have value
without being an object
of utility.
Karl Marx
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
