Yet Smith's artwork, which is based on bookbinding, fetches impressive prices on the auction block.
His family fetches water in jars and the electricity comes on maybe twice a week.
McDonald's is trading at 18.0 times its expected 2008 earnings, while Starbucks fetches a multiple of 17.7.
Ultimately, the only measure of a private-equity stake's value is what it fetches when it is sold.
The gear will sell for a fraction of the price the designers' merchandise typically fetches at department stores.
When an old master's painting fetches tens of millions on the auction block, it makes headlines around the world.
An Uber staffer fetches me and I am taken to meet Mr. Kalanick.
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Farmers' unions say Indian rice fetches a good price in the export market.
That stock fetches 26 times estimated 2012 earnings of 68 cents a share.
You can almost hear the languid drone of a bee, the crunching gravel underfoot as the hostess fetches out new platters and pitchers.
Low costs on product that fetches high prices is every company's dream.
One of the most recent additions, and the one which fetches the second highest composite score for guru appeal, is Ceradyne, Inc.
The stock fetches 30.8 times 2012 earnings and 25 times 2013 earnings.
But the price a picture fetches is quoted with all these included.
This is time for the second flush - or harvest - of tea in the region, which fetches high prices in European markets.
For example, when you login, LinkedIn fetches your connections from the relevant storage provider (if you have chosen to have this asset stored elsewhere).
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Agnes fetches up on a river bank beside the corpse of Father Damien Modeste, a priest drowned on his way to an Ojibwe mission.
Already, the "hard" ivory of cyclotis fetches a higher price in the growing markets of the Far East than "softer" ivory from African savanna elephants.
That means Coach fetches 14.9 times and 13 times estimates, respectively.
Picture the following: You're reclining on a lawn chair, relaxed, while one robot mows your lawn, another cleans your pool and a third fetches you a beer.
But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny.
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MediaMaster even analyses the metadata and fetches album art, which you can also see in the library view - missing chunks from the cover means you have not imported the entire album.
"It's important for the Wales team to have players like Martyn, he fetches the experience not only as a player but as a leader, " Howells told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.
After the user is prompted for his or her address, the Google Maps API fetches and incorporates dynamic maps and street view data of the user's hometown into the animated content of the video itself.
Royal Dutch Shell fetches 7.7 times.
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