Quotes and Sayings About Commodity
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!
-- Ajahn Brahm -
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.
-- Alan Greenspan -
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.
-- Aliko Dangote -
To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.
-- Aliko Dangote -
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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
-- Andrzej Stasiuk -
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
-- Angela Carter -
I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
-- Audrey Flack -
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.
-- Betty Hutton -
When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.
-- Bob Burg -
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
-- C. L. R. James -
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
-- Carl Menger -
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
-- Carol Kane -
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.
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
-- Che Guevara -
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
-- Christine Baranski -
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
-- Christopher Morley -
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
-- David Dreman -
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
-- David Harvey -
If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
-- David Landes -
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.
-- David Ricardo