Goods Quotes

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Auctions, Politics

  "Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Quality Goods, Cost

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• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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• I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 25, 2010

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• Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 17, 2011

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• America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". Book by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden, 1966.

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• That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

  Paul Hawken

  Age, Information, Transformation

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.

  B. Joseph Pine II

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• In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.

  Satish Kumar

  Insecure, Caring, Technology

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Thankfulness, Might

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• For after all, a poster does more than simply
  supply information on the goods it advertises;
  it also reveals a society’s state of mind

  Armin Hofmann

  Mind, Society, Doe

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• The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

  Peter Travers

  Book, Hero, Popcorn

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• Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Giving Up, Rich Countries

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

  Michael Sandel

  Medicine, Suffering, Relief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

  Alfred Marshall

  Purpose, Use, May

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

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• In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

  Edward Lear

  Life, Two, Jugs

  'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bó' (1871)

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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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• A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.

  Robert Rubin

  Strong, Mean, Dollars

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• Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of  'destruction' and 'waste'.  Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.  Then  economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of  goods

  Petr Skrabanek

  Tuberculosis, Disease, Waste

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• There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

  Sima Qian

  Forever, Wealth, Masters

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• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is against all tho laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

  Victor Cousin

  Wise, Cousin, Men

  "The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal".

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• Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

  Karl Hess

  Men, Division Of Labor, Credit

  "The Death of Politics". Playboy Magazine, March 1969.

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