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  • "Value is the most invisible and impalpable of ghosts."
    William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), British economist and mathematician
    Source: Investigations on Currency and Finance (1884)
  • "Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having."
    Elizabeth Arden (1884–1966), US entrepreneur and cosmetics manufacturer
    Source: Quoted in In Cosmetics the Old Mystique Is No Longer Enough (Eleanore Carruth, 1973)
  • "The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor."
    Henry George (1839–1897), US economist
    Source: The Science of Political Economy (1897)
  • "There are only four ways to create value in the New Economy, and they’re really simple: information, entertainment, convenience, and savings."
    Jay S. Walker (1956–), US entrepreneur, founder of Priceline.com, and CEO of Walker Digital Corporation
    Source: Interview, Strategy + Business (April–June 2000)
  • "Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive."
    Barry J. Nalebuff (1958–), US author and professor of management
    Source: Co-opetition (cowritten with Adam M. Brandenburger, 1997)
  • "If you're over 30, you think there's no such thing as a free lunch; if you're under 30, you assume all lunches are free. Look at your children: they know ways of getting movies, music, and television free. They make phone calls free. They set up social networks or blogs using expensive software systems handed out free. They have free word processors, free web browsers, they can search every web page in the world for free."
    Bryan Appleyard (1951–), British journalist
    Source: Sunday Times (London) (June 28, 2009)

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