Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.