Commodity Quotes

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.

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.

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

Time is a perishable commodity.

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

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.

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

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.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

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

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

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.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

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.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

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

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

ideas are dangerous commodities.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

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

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Success is the most valuable commodity.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.