Quotes on Commodity

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

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.

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

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

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.

Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

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

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

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

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.