Goods Quotes

• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  

  Edwin Black
  • Teenagers
  • Boycott
  • Salesmen

• It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.

  

  Walter Wykes
  • Stealing
  • Goods
  • Theft

• Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

  

  Red Cloud
  • World
  • Die
  • Forty

• A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Growth
  • Economic
  • Capacity

• If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Goods
  • Capitalist
  • Proselytism

• If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

  

  William Feather
  • People
  • Work
  • Land

• Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

  

  William Feather
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Secret
  • Dirty
  • Currency

• Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Road
  • Goods
  • Seek For God

• It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

  

  George Washington
  • Quality
  • Objects
  • Ought

• Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Learning
  • Production
  • Manufacturing

• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Country
  • Gold
  • Values

• I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Running
  • Acting
  • Driven

• The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Government
  • United States
  • Goods

• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Experience
  • Happiness
  • Goods

• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Fashion
  • Leader
  • Precedence

• Women spend the money of society on its goods.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Women
  • Money
  • Goods

• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Feels

• As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.

  

  Theresa May
  • People
  • Companies
  • British

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