Commodity Quotes

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The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

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

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.

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.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

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

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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

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.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

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.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Attention is a precious commodity.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

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