Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like. — Bob Buckhorn Copy Share Image
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will… — Libreria Editrice Vaticana Copy Share Image
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
