Commodity Quotes

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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

  Philip Kotler

  Waiting, Products

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• 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.

  Jim Rogers

  Zero, Pieces, Paper

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Sight, Analysis

  Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Needs, Looks, Speculators

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• Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Land, Understanding

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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

  David Landes

  Ideas, Gains, Economics

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• Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

  Jim Rogers

  Active Management, Equity, Private Equity

  "Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market". Book by Jim Rogers, March 27, 2007.

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• The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Ideas, Brain

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Increase, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

  Marie Calloway

  Demand, Valuable

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• Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

  David Ricardo

  Gold, Arbitrary, Scarcity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.263

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• Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

  Gary Hirshberg

  Business, Quality, Management

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Kitchen, Bottles, Tables

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

  David Ricardo

  Increase, Difficulty, Productions

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.377

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• It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

  William Booth

  Stupidity, Battle, Investing

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• ideas are dangerous commodities.

  E. C. R. Lorac

  Ideas, Dangerous

  E.C.R. Lorac (2015). “Murder by Matchlight”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Business, Coffee

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Spiritual, And Love

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Way, Efficiency

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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

  Thucydides

  Be Prepared, Prepared, Expensive

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• For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

  Ana Castillo

  Men, Roles, World

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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