Goods Quotes
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If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.
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When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.
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Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.
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We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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Searching for precious goods leads astray.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
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The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.
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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
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They use their minds to create wealth—not by taking existing materials and turning them into more valuable goods, but by taking existing wealth and putting it toward more valuable uses. In short, financiers don’t create the products that enrich our lives—they help create (and nurture) all the businesses that create the products that enrich our lives.
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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.
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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
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And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
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Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
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If an abundance of those things which a people considers the goods and the riches of the earth defines wealth, then it follows that that particular culture is wealthy in proportion to the production and distribution of just those things and no others; and it does not depend upon what another people may consider the goods and riches, no matter how greatly those things have multiplied for them, nor how many individuals they have to possess them. What industrialism counts as the goods and riches of the earth the agrarian South does not, nor ever will.
