Commodity Quotes - Page 8

• I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Derivatives, Should

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Gold, Variation

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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• Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Two, Scarcity, Source

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

  David Ricardo

  Men, Pay, Mass

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.7

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• It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Party, Process

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.384

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• The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

  Karl Marx

  Circulation, Originals

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Government, Deception

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.141, Harriman House Limited

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• I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

  Betty Hutton

  Dog, Hot, Hot Dog

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Hysteria, Confusion, Despair

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

  Bob Burg

  Resources, Sells, Values

  FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Sep 25, 2011

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• Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

  Steve Forbes

  Oil, Dollars, Saws

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

  Ben Affleck

  Actors, Investment, Used

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.

  Taika Waititi

  Play, Games, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Fuel, Facts, Productions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Decision

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• Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Gold, Use

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.36, Franciscan Media

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• I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

  Artie Shaw

  Fun, Way, Miserable

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• There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Taken, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

  Mark Twain

  Use, Truth Is

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• As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

  Michael Horton

  Running, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

  Adam Smith

  Natural, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.70, VM eBooks

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• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  William Petty

  Years, Soil, Bears

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• If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

  Dov Davidoff

  Real, Procrastination, Skills

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