Commodity Quotes

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

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.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

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

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

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

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

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.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

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.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

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.

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

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.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

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

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

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

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

Attention is a precious commodity.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

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

Time is the only commodity that matters.

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

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.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

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

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.

sex is a commodity just like anything else.

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.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.