Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

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

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

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

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.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

... 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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