A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
The No. 1 thing is the product. The goods have to be good, but I care about how you feel about it.
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.
Trucking is the backbone of U.S. commerce. Consumers rely on the industry to move the parts for their cars, the food for their dinner tables, and, increasingly, the goods they order online.
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.
The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.
I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver... a luxury!
If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
I am more rich in goods than I am in money.
Fashion is an ultimate luxury - I mean, you don't need it - so it should bring you pleasure and make you happy. I don't like the idea of people revering it.
I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and high-low.
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.
Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
In 1959, Moscow gave space to an exhibition of American consumer goods, and my father, also a member of this generation, tasted Pepsi for the first time.
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day.
I made a specific choice not to call my collection Ivanka. There's so much value in the Trump name. And there's such a deep connection to luxury and success.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.
In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply scholarly thinking to art and culture.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
We lose; and only what we lose we have.
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.
I always try to make healthy baked goods, like an oatmeal cookie that literally has only oats, nuts, bananas and apple sauce in it.
In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.
Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.
The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
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