Values Quotes

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

It's a tough pill to swallow, but if I was going to stand for something as an artist, and every time that had consequences I decided not to do it, that'd be pointless. I have to listen to people, and I always try to meet people with understanding.

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists should be judged by the danger and inconvenience that they face for doing so, not by the rewards they receive for parroting consensus.

My dad was one of the reasons I kept Simply Red going so long. I was brought up to stick at things. I was the only songwriter in Simply Red, so I could have toured under my own banner. But I'd developed the name, so I stuck with it.

My health and my family are the core of my being.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices.

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.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.