Top 557 Commodity Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.
If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.
I think that rational people in the world know that oil is a very important commodity for the rest of the world.
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
I don?t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.
Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.
Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.
A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of emerging market economies.
When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.
In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
Well, peace is a very expensive commodity in my country, as well as in my region.
f you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you’re over 40 you’re actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you’ll do it again.
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.
I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.
If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.
The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
Everyone has made themselves into a commodity with Facebook, Twitter - with all of these things, you're commodifying your life every time you post an Instagram picture.
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
