Commodity Quotes - Page 10

• The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

  David Ricardo

  Errors, Political, Demand

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.232

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• Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Mean, Exercise, Men

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39

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• Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

  Stephanie Mills

  Running, Attitude, Land

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• 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.

  Henry Wotton

  Art, Three, Delight

  'Elements of Architecture' (1624) pt. 1

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• You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

  Dorothy Draper

  Heart, People, Design

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• Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

  David Harvey

  Inflation, Hard

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Yesterday, Eras, Hours

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Running, Fall, Mean

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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• When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

  Duff McDonald

  Cost, Banking, Way

  Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jane Asher

  Home, Names, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robbie Fowler

  Firsts, Treated, Persons

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• In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

  Edward Bernays

  Practice, Fabric, Dozen

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost as hard-and it takes almost as good a hunter-to keep a dog good as to make one as good. Eternal vigilance is the price of a good bird dog, regardless of who you are, or where and how virtuously you live.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Bird, Hunters

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• The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Sound, Fundamentals

  In a press conference, October 30, 1929.

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• The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Excellence, Bankers, Saving

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

  Kenneth Lay

  Energy, Today, Economy

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• What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

  Michael Ealy

  Honesty, I've Learned

  Source: collider.com

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• Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, May, Selling

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Believe, People

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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• When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

  Jan Struther

  Order, Speech, Scarcity

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• 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.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Loss, Availability, Checks

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.

  Ravi Gomatam

  Girl, School, Boys

  Interview with Thomas Beardy, Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper), 1990.

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• Civilization is a perishable commodity.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Civilization

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