Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day. — Monica Brant Copy Share Image
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it… — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to… — Marc Rich Copy Share Image
All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with… — Sting Copy Share Image
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market.… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look… — El Anatsui Copy Share Image
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image