Commodity Quotes - Page 9

• I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Made, Should

  4 Copy quote

• A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Needs, Complicated

  Source: www.pbs.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Magic, Hobbies

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Commodity Prices, Hiking, Dollars

  4 Copy quote

• Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Years, Church, May

  5 Copy quote

• A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Demand

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

  Daniel Yergin

  Country, Years, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

  Erwin McManus

  Voice, Knowing, Live Your Life

  40 Copy quote

• I believe that there have been repeated attempts to influence prices in the silver markets. There have been fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control that price. Based on what I have been told by members of the public, and reviewed in publicly available documents, I believe violations to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) have taken place in silver markets and that any such violation of the law in this regard should be prosecuted.

  Bart Chilton

  Believe, Taken, Law

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

  Jon Spaihts

  War, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

  Garrison Keillor

  Honesty, Rocks, Palaces

  4 Copy quote

• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

  31 Copy quote

• The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

  Artie Shaw

  Order, Trying, Musician

  7 Copy quote

• When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

  Mark McGrath

  Integrity, Dollars, Labels

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.

  Dale Peck

  Country, Taken, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Strange, Imports

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Use, Restriction, Including

  7 Copy quote

• A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

  John Quincy Adams

  Writing, Men, Names

  "Rocking the Vote, in the 1820s and Now" by Jon Meacham, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Sexy, Running

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Art, Use, Pay

  4 Copy quote

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

  Groucho Marx

  Precious Stones, Comedian, Gold

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.69, Da Capo Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

  Taylor Hackford

  Sex, Class, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

  6 Copy quote

• We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Aerospace, Numbers, Support

  6 Copy quote

• Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Feelings, Use

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.117, A&C Black

  5 Copy quote

  Show source