“"If Ryan Giggs is worth 20 million, Dennis Bergkamp is worth 100 million." — Marco van Basten.”
Dennis Bergkamp (1969) Dutch footballer
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Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
“"If Ryan Giggs is worth 20 million, Dennis Bergkamp is worth 100 million." — Marco van Basten.”
Dennis Bergkamp (1969) Dutch footballer
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“A small act is worth a million thoughts.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2000-09, Meet the Most Interesting Person in China, 2009
“A hundred girls aren't worth a single testicle.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Attributed on the internet; a popular Vietnamese saying
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Stanza 2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
1990s
“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 39
“I'm a million different things every day of the week.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: P.S. I Love You
“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die