Commodities Quotes

• 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.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Life
  • Necessary
  • Restriction

• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  

  Bono U2
  • Government
  • Taxes
  • Schools

• I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Important
  • Black
  • Hand

• Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Money
  • Commodities
  • Manufacture

• We continue to argue with our European colleagues about the importance of fairness when it comes to compensation and transitional regimes for sugar and for bananas and for other commodities . . . .

  

  Jack Straw
  • Fairness
  • Compensation
  • Regimes

• These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • Men
  • May
  • Honor

• Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.

  

  Nicolae Ceausescu
  • Oil
  • Commodities
  • Export

• 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.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Food
  • Engagement

• Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Individual
  • Commodity
  • Ships

• The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Labor
  • Demand
  • Commodities

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

  

  Eloisa James
  • Silence
  • Conclusion
  • Commodities

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

  

  Kate Warne
  • Business
  • Companies
  • Commodities

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

  

  David Landes
  • Ideas
  • Compared
  • Substantial

• Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

  

  Andrew Jackson Downing
  • Earth
  • Commodities

• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  

  Carl Menger
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Economic

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

  

  Steve Hanke
  • Market
  • Prices
  • Commodities

• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  

  Bret Lott
  • Hope
  • Journey
  • Great Book

• It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa. … It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.

  

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
  • Value
  • Gain
  • Consumption

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

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Invest
  • Trading
  • Commodities

• Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Food
  • Church
  • Reason

• If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commodities are going to lead it back up. If the world economy is not going to revive, commodities are still the place to be—especially with governments printing so much money. Look at the 1970s. The world economy was in the tank, but commodities did very well.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Economy
  • I Believe
  • Governments