Escape is a commodity like anything else

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

— Warren Buffett

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point…

— James Surowiecki

Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.

— Howard Lutnick

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

— Betty Hutton

“These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes…

— Karl Marx

McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images…

— Benjamin Barber

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they…

— Sinclair Dumontais

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish…

— Russell Means

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

— Jeff Koons

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen