Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.

As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

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

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

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.

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

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