James Buchan Quotes About Commodities

Quotes about: Commodities

• A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Water, Today

• To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

  James Buchan

  Unique, Men, Names

• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Oil, Middle East

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