Goods Quotes
620 Goods quotes by 503 unique authors
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A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of…
— Nouriel Roubini
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling…
— Will Self
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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce…
— Hu Shih
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We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something…
— Peter Singer
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
— John Stossel
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What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will…
— James Surowiecki
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
— Bob Uecker
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One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods…
— Roberto Unger
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You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that…
— Elizabeth Warren
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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade…
— Ron Wyden
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People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford…
— Julian Baggini
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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one…
— J. G. Ballard
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It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying…
— Woody Allen
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a…
— Thomas Paine
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
— Frank Zappa
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So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a…
— Ayn Rand
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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like…
— Maya Angelou
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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
— Ariana Franklin
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The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to…
— Lilith Saintcrow
Who Wrote These Goods Quotes
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