Best 173 quotes in «commodity quotes» category

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

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

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

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

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

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.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.