Commodity Quotes - Page 13

• The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

  Peter DeFazio

  Oil, America, Crude

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• Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Race, Gold, Borders

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• Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Paper, Demand

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• The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Games, Two

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• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Century

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Competitors, Smarter

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• It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.

  Naomi Klein

  Blue, Jeans, House

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Vintage Canada

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• Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

  Maria Cantwell

  Competition, Casinos, Embrace

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• Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

  Guy Debord

  Army, Police, Violence

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.33, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Variation, Causes

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.47

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• Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Makeup, Our World, Gold

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

  Bell Hooks

  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Branding, Brands, Ifs

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• I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.
  I just don't think that everybody is disciplined.
  I think that's a rare commodity.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Believe, Thinking, Creative

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• Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

  David Baldacci

  Passion, Giving, Treasure

  Interview with Gabrielle Reilly, www.theglobaltownhall.com.

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• Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, World, Pay

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• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

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• Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Giving, Our Words

  "Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance".

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opening Up, Entrepreneur, Reform

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• 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

  Thinking, Engagement, World

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• The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Thinking, Mind

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• By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

  Ron Chernow

  People, Appreciate, House

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• Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Justice, Rewards, Citizens

  Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

  Walter Benjamin

  Bourgeoisie, Ruins, Economy

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

  Antoinette Bosco

  Cake, Giving, Asking

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