As our products have improved, and you add value at the high end, customers move to the high end.
Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.
From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
In the past, mushrooms were maligned as nutritionally poor. Since they are about 80 to 90 percent water when fresh, their net concentrations of nutrients can be underestimated. Like grains, however, mushrooms should be weighed when dry to get their correct nutrient value.
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.
My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human.
The end of the 'tech bubble' in the year 2000 is, of course, widely recognized, as the NASDAQ stock index erased three-quarters of its value between 2000 and 2003.
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.
If we give something value, it becomes valuable.
A major way that losses are generated in real estate ventures is through depreciation, which is supposed to reflect the way that assets lose value over time. But a well-maintained building typically gains value.
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value of government-created money, although Bitcoin is newer, and we always look at babies with hope.
I felt sharing my experience may be of value or assistance in some way to others.
If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.
Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.
If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
