Top 248 Commodities Quotes & Sayings

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

ideas are dangerous commodities.

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.