Monetary Value Quotes:

I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.

- Quentin S. Crisp

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Queens, School, Thinking, Monetary Value, Jubilee

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Source: www.raisethehammer.org

topic: Energy, Fiesta, Economy, Monetary Value

Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand

- Sarah McCoy

topic: Real, Commitment, Impact, Monetary Value, Robust

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

- DeMarcus Ware

topic: Goal, Important, Definitions, Monetary Value, Definition Of Success

As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year ...

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Zero, Work, Motherhood, Monetary Value, American Values

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

- Ludacris

topic: Passion, Heart, Love Is, Monetary Value

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

- Helene D. Gayle

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Population, Environment, Investment, Monetary Value