Commodity Quotes - Page 8

• It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

  Francesca Annis

  Funny, America, Luck

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• Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the other party fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As an entrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you try to put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you.

  Victor Kiam

  Integrity, Party, Dirty

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• In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

  Tom Szaky

  Men, Ideas, Garbage

  Tom Szaky (2013). “Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste”, p.70, Penguin

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• [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Doors, Dust

  Marjory Stephenson (1939). “Bacterial metabolism”

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• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Oil, Discovery

  "Making Economic Sense". Book by Murray Rothbard (p. 274), 1995.

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• The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Civilization, People

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• Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Agriculture, Wealth, Prosperity

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the federalist, civil and military”, p.237

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• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Comfort, Culture, Void

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.128, Three Rivers Press

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• I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Upset, Wasted My Time

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

  Karl Marx

  Labor, Employed, Productions

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Compassion, Views

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• Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

  Aliko Dangote

  Achieve, Bigs, Breakthrough

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• 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

  Thinking, Engagement, World

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• The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Thinking, Mind

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

  Ron Chernow

  People, Appreciate, House

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• 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

  Justice, Rewards, Citizens

  Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Air, Land

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• That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Men, Self

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• But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

  Alfred Marshall

  Real, Men, Purpose

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.

  Philip Kotler

  Art, Marketing, Cost

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• 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.

  Robert Rubin

  Cutting, Commodity Prices, Way

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• Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

  Neil Postman

  Information, Entertainment, Drowning

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• What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

  Ralph Raico

  Government, People, Libertarian

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Meaningful, Moving, Book

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• Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Pork, National Parks, Machines

  "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.

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