Commodity Quotes
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
f you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you’re over 40 you’re actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you’ll do it again.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.
Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
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.
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.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
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.
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.
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.
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
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.
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
Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.
Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
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.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.
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.
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.
Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
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.
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.
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.
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.
The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.