Commodities Quotes

“...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”

— Alan Bradley

ideas are dangerous commodities.

— E. C. R. Lorac

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

— Jim Rogers

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

— Pat Benatar

“that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.”

— Steve Berry

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

— John Stuart Mill

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

— Wilbur Ross

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

— Jim Rogers

“Our most valued commodities have gone from salt and sugar to chemicals and fuels to data and services.”

— Alec J. Ross

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

— David Landes

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

— Karl Marx

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

— Blythe Masters

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

— Kate Warne

“Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers…

— Wadah Khanfar

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

— Maria Cantwell

The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and…

— Anil Agarwal

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion…

— John Ortberg

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting…

— Oscar Isaac

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Ana Castillo

“So you’re an environmentalist; why are you supporting commodities instead of food, corporate profits over local, living economies, and power over justice?”

— Lierre Keith

“Who is sitting on a commodity without recognizing its complete potential? How do technological developments or political events such as wars affect…

— Daniel Ammann

The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity…

— Warren Buffett

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting…

— Kevin McCloud

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead…

— Michael Parenti

“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live…

— Mango Wodzak

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When…

— Steve Forbes

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits,…

— Thomas Pogge

“Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from…

— Ivan Illich

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work.…

— Ivan Illich

“Revelation Chapter 18 details the many goods which are sold through the Daughter of Babylon’s ports. The lengthy list appears in Revelation…

— John Price

“We also understand, therefore, that wages and private property are identical. Indeed, where the product, as the object of labor, pays for…

— Karl Marx

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too…

— Peter Schiff

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

— Eugene Mirman

“Your life and knowledge are the most valuable commodities you have, Polar―don't be so hasty to throw them away.”

— Jasmine Walt

“As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.”

— Ellen Willis

Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

— Steve Hanke

Stocks are [going to] go down ¦ commodities are [going to] go up.

— Jim Rogers

In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala