Commodity Prices Quotes

#1. Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Debbie Stabenow

#2. All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

Robert Rubin

#3. There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

David Wessel

#4. What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. If global oil prices or commodity prices are high, then it is bound to create inflation. So, we should not be too worried if the inflation is created by global commodity prices. When they come down, inflation will automatically come down.

Adi Godrej

#6. If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

Matt Martin

#7. I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.

Howard Schultz

#8. MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

Gary Weiss

#9. If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

Craig Ferguson

#10. Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.

Henry Hazlitt

#11. We live with our past, for better and worse. What happens, happens and we must move on.

Chris Cole

#12. For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

Barton Booth

#14. The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

Scout Niblett

#15. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

#16. Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Gautam Adani

#17. The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

Alain De Botton

#18. It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.

Pearl Zhu

#19. The youth of Taiwan not only have to face the harsh reality of low wages and high commodity and housing prices, but due to the lack of employment opportunities, many young people are forced to leave their home towns to search for jobs in the cities.

Tsai Ing-wen

#20. It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

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

Adam Smith

#23. I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.

Manuel Moroun