Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.