Commodities Quotes

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

— John Stuart Mill

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

— Pat Benatar

“that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.”

— Steve Berry

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

— Jim Rogers

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

— Alan Bradley

ideas are dangerous commodities.

— E. C. R. Lorac

“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”

— Alan Bradley

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

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

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

— Jim Rogers

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

— Steve Hanke

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

— Rudolf Hiferding

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

— Ellen Willis

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

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're…

— Jeremy Grantham

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down,…

— John Catsimatidis

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system…

— Elizabeth Warren

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly…

— Millicent Fawcett

China has been on a historic commodities binge as it doubled the size of its economy in recent years to become one…

— Kelly Evans

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in…

— Marc Faber

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped…

— Jim Rogers

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions…

— Rudolf Hiferding

“Economic growth has liberated societies from the natural pressures that forced them into an immediate struggle for survival; but they have not…

— Guy Debord

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians…

— Michael Showalter

I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very…

— Marina Warner

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises.…

— Barry Ritholtz

“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

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

— Thomas Pogge

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price…

— John Maynard Keynes

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of…

— Elliott Abrams

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

— Karl Marx

“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

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

— Ivan Illich

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

— Jasmine Walt

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

— Eugene Mirman

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

— Peter Schiff

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

— David Landes

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

— Alec J. Ross

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

— Jim Rogers

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

— Wilbur Ross