Top 100 Quotes About Commodity
#1. Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!
Ajahn Brahm
#2. Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is
where faith is born - a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful
organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.
Justin Villanueva
#3. 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.
David Ricardo
#4. It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Marc Rich
#5. Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share.
Mark W. Boyer
#6. I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
Anthony Hopkins
#7. I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#9. Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#10. A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts ...
John Dos Passos
#11. Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
John Milton
#12. Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.
Bill Bryson
#13. Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#14. We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.
Karl Marx
#16. To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.
Cate Marvin
#17. In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
Warren Stephens
#18. 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
#19. You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#21. Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
Felix Salmon
#22. When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.
Bob Burg
#23. The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
Phil Cooke
#24. 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
#25. Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
Frank Pierson
#26. Only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
Max Brooks
#27. How did the Farm Bill achieve overwhelming support from Congress in the face of such widespread calls for reform?...In exchange for leaving support for the large commodity crop farmers in place, House and Senate negotiators packaged support for nearly everyone else into the bill.
Pietra Rivoli
#28. The truth is the earth's most perpetual commodity. The lie can be painted as wished, embellished in gold and silver, too. False witnesses and false truths can be provided to support it. But only the truth is unchanging.
Diana Khalil
#29. Privacy is a rare commodity on a small island and secrets weigh heavy on their keepers
Christopher Moore
#30. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
Gary Hirshberg
#32. You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
Peter Cushing
#33. Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity
Myles Munroe
#34. And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them.
Marcus Aurelius
#35. A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.
Karl Marx
#36. There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#37. Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
Roger Ebert
#39. I've come to realise that the most precious commodity in life is not money, time, or even health as such, but mental energy. We should take great care in nurturing, protecting, and directing our mental energies.
Neel Burton
#40. In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.
Jesse Ventura
#41. Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.
Warren Buffett
#42. This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons.
Fritjof Capra
#43. It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
Audrey Flack
#44. The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
Guy Debord
#45. Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.
Theodor W. Adorno
#46. 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.
Edward R. Murrow
#47. The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
Hugh Jackman
#48. The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.
Hugh Laurie
#49. The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.
Hugh Laurie
#50. Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.
Toba Beta
#51. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
Michael Dell
#52. If the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
Emma Goldman
#53. Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
William S. Burroughs
#54. One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity ... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.
Marilyn Johnson
#55. Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Garrison Keillor
#56. God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
Marcello Giordani
#57. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
Khaled Hosseini
#59. We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.
Monica Brant
#60. 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.
Spencer W. Kimball
#61. I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.
Ross Macdonald
#62. Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
Richard Dooling
#63. Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.
James Murdoch
#64. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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.
Aldo Leopold
#65. You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
Larry Dixon
#66. I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
Merle Haggard
#67. It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.
Tim Macartney-Snape
#68. I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,
Angela Davis
#69. She exhaled curtly. 'I'm a serryn. That's all you see. I'm just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That's hardly the most appealing of traits.'
'Tell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn't look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#70. Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
John Berger
#71. Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.
Marcia Angell
#72. Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism.
Bell Hooks
#73. Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#74. Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.
Joan Lindsay
#75. Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#76. To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.
Anthony Newley
#77. For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Ana Castillo
#78. Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhan
#79. Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
Dave Hickey
#80. Gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
P.D. James
#81. I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.
I just don't think that everybody is disciplined.
I think that's a rare commodity.
Al Hirschfeld
#82. The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.
William Stanley Jevons
#83. when you have been in business as long as I have you will be inclined to put a pretty high value on loyalty. It is the one commodity that hasn't any market value, and it's the one that you can't pay too much for.
George Horace Lorimer
#84. There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
Randeep Hooda
#85. By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
William Stanley Jevons
#86. if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.
Peter Thiel
#87. If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.
Mark Leibovich
#88. The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.
Emily Post
#89. Fear is a valuable commodity, it's common sense compressed into its purest form.
Mark Lawrence
#90. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
#91. Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
Sydney J. Harris
#92. Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.
James Surowiecki
#93. 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
#94. If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.
Donald Trump
#95. Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.
Robin Givhan
#96. The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.
Erich Fromm
#97. Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
Wilbur Ross
#98. Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
Edward De Bono
#99. Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
Raymond Williams
#100. The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
Sun Ra
