Quotes About Commodity

I think trust is a priceless commodity.

as Marcos reminds us, "When Mexican government officials say land, they precede the word with an 'I buy' or 'I sell,' since for the powerful land is just a commodity. When the Indigenous say land, no word recedes it, but with it they also mean nation, mother, home, school, history, wisdom.

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.

An actor is only merchandise.

It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.

In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated.

One of the main problems of price control is to define the appropriate price of what is being controlled

get a life,' current slang suggesting that life itself is a commodity [ Out of the Garden ].

The golden age of the "hog man," the producer specializing solely in pork production from his or her family-farm base, had come to an end. And it was just as well; the single-commodity production agriculture that had evolved was neither good risk management nor consistent with the nature of family farms.

Rosen explains as follows: "Hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance." In other words, talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels: There's a premium to being the best. Therefore, if you're in a marketplace where the consumer has access to all performers, and everyone's q value is clear, the consumer will choose the very best.

talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels: There's a premium to being the best.

Basic economic theory tells us that if you want something that's both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return—this is Supply and Demand 101.

One of his key insights was to explicitly model talent—labeled, innocuously, with the variable q in his formulas—as a factor with "imperfect substitution," which Rosen explains as follows: "Hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance." In other words, talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels: There's a premium to being the best.

As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment very clearly. This guy owed me a sheep, but instead of giving me an actual sheep he gave me five coins he said were worth the same as a sheep. "But I can't eat round pieces of metal, asshole," were my exact words.)

An answer, certainly,' Vale agreed. 'But the truth? That might be a very dangerous commodity.

It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity.

It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity—common sense. You see, there is a branch of human knowledge known as symbolic logic, which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.

An Earthman will give you anything as long as it costs nothing and is worth less

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.