Commodities Quotes

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

— Jim Rogers

ideas are dangerous commodities.

— E. C. R. Lorac

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

— Alan Bradley

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

— John Stuart Mill

“that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.”

— Steve Berry

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

— Pat Benatar

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

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

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Kate Warne

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

— Blythe Masters

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

— Wilbur Ross

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I…

— Trinny Woodall

“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than…

— Matthew Scully

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with…

— David Ricardo

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know…

— Jim Rogers

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in…

— Eric Lewis

“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

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more…

— Sebastian Faulks

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Daniel Ammann

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

“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

“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

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

— David Landes

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

— Rudolf Hiferding

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

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

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