Commodity Quotes

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

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.

Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?

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

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

It is here we come to the heart of the matter.

The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

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.

Gold is the most precious of all commodities;

gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

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

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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.

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.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing.

But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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.

Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot think clearly, nor act morally or altruistically, nor experience love and hatred, or kindness and terror, in the same way that we can.

We are all accountable for ourselves.

Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous.

These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

Commodity market - A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities

Commodity fetishism - In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, commodity fetishism is the perception of certain relationships (especially production and exchange) not

Commodity money - Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. Commodity money consists of objects having value or use in themselves

Commodity management - Commodity Management is the process of developing a systematic approach to the entire usage cycle for a group of items. The term is often used interchangeably

Commodity broker - A commodity broker is a firm or an individual who executes orders to buy or sell commodity contracts on behalf of the clients and charges them a commission

Commodity (Marxism) - political economy and especially Karl Marx's critique of political economy, a commodity is any good or service ("products" or "activities") produced by human

Commodity form theory - Commodity form theory is a theory of jurisprudence advanced by the Soviet legal theorist Evgeny Pashukanis. The theory argues that the legal form is the

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

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

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

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities;

they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

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

The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.