Quotes About Goods

It put the interest of the producers and merchants ahead of that of consumers, who only want low prices and a ready supply of goods. Merchants often prefer the opposite.

David Hume would put it even more vividly: all the other passions, including self-interest itself, have relatively minor effect on our lives, compared with the desire for property. "This avidity alone of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society .

Anyone born after 1985 has grown up during the post-liberalisation honeymoon, when a rash of new banks, phone companies, airlines, care and durable goods manufacturers were wooing them or their parents for business.

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

We are come for your good, for all your goods.

Airbnb is creating a new marketplace for space and is facing many of the challenges that eBay faced back in 1998 when they created a new marketplace for goods.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

The No. 1 thing is the product. The goods have to be good, but I care about how you feel about it.

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.

The EU has made it very clear that for frictionless trade and no tariffs on goods there is a mechanism for achieving that, but there are consequences. There are trade-offs that will have to happen.

India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.

All directors from the South go back home as failures... I didn't want that to happen to me. So, I became a factory, determined to produce successful goods.

From life sciences to manufacturing, San Diego's economy depends on federal policies that encourage the cross-border exchange of goods and ideas.

Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.

A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Wealth correlates with certain forms of freedom, like the freedom to acquire goods, or to travel, or freedom of access to certain cultural events, and so on.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.