Quotes About Commodity

Thus was born an ideology: the belief in the inherent value of gold despite its relative uselessness in reality.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

War, Etienne thinks distantly, is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consumer products once divorced from inherent use value are imbued with all sorts of meaning. To brand something as feminist doesn't involve ideology, or labor, or policy, or specific actions or processes. It's just a matter of saying, 'This is feminist because we say it is.

The problem with the prohibition of any desirable commodity is money.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

It is the purpose of this book to explain the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and to tell how it is manipulated by the special pleader who seeks to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. It will attempt at the same time to find the due place in the modern democratic scheme for this new propaganda and to suggest its gradually evolving code of ethics and practice.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

precious metals.

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'