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Quotes About Goods

These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the type of allocation of talent, which is so crucial to economic prosperity. Both
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Apparently the term refugee can be plausibly denied if both - I'm quoting direct from Neil's memo here - if both, a, no homemade wagons piled high with worldly goods are pulled by slow bovine animals with curvy horns, and b, if the percentage of children under six who are either, a, naked, or b, squalling at the top of their lungs, or c, both, is under 20% of the total number of children under six in transit.
~ David Foster Wallace
The world does not exist merely to satisfy our own desires; it is a world in which we can find pleasure and meaning, once we understand that others too have a right to these goods.
~ Christopher Lasch
The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions.
~ Cioran
fishing equipment and lawn mowers, bought the goods in one branch of Kmart and then returned them in other branches for a full refund. Like most crooks with a workable scam, Virgil Freer did it once
~ Clifford Irving
He looks at Norris, exasperated. He seems to think that with eloquence, with sincerity, with frankness, he can change what is happening. The whole court has seen him slobbering over the queen. How could he expect to go shopping with his eyes, and finger the goods no doubt, and not have an account to settle at the end of it?
~ Hilary Mantel
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~ Hilary Mantel
The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth. They accept it in exchange for goods and services because they have faith in it.
~ Lionel Shriver
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
~ Alex Berenson
Because of free trade, producers across Missouri can compete at a global level, and - due to the quality and variety of goods our state produces - we have become very successful at exporting.
~ Mike Parson
I believe an open Internet is essential to the flow of information, goods and services that will grow Vermont's economy.
~ Phil Scott
Basic survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimulation and social-display products are expensive. Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.3 For
~ Jeffrey D. Sachs
if information goods are to be distributed at their marginal cost of production—zero—they cannot be created and produced by entrepreneurial firms that use revenues obtained from sales to consumers to cover their [fixed set-up] costs. If
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.
~ Alex Berenson
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.
~ Ulrich Beck
Where people work less they buy more . . . business is the exchange of goods. Goods are bought only as they meet needs. Needs are filled only as they are felt. They make themselves felt largely in the leisure hours.
~ Vicki Robin
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the 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
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
~ Victor J. Stenger
Janet Flanner made an interesting observation midway through the year [1947]: in Paris, stores frequented by women, the biggest selling goods were, unsurprisingly, ... But the second item they were ordering was prams, a biological vote of confidence in the future.
~ Unknown
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.
~ Peter L. Bernstein
It is important to note that while goods are consumed, services are experienced.
~ David H. Maister
il tutto in diverse sfumature di grigio, celeste, verde scuro, perché in base a una ricerca, questi sono i colori che la gente associa a scienza e tecnologia (il viola e il rosso evocano le arti, l'azzurro scuro sta a significare qualità e/o merci scelte)...
~ Zadie Smith