Commodity Quote by David Ricardo

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory…

— Lewis Mumford

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in…

— Alfred Marshall

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

— Peter Senge

“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits…

— Italo Calvino

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

“Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that do what…

— Robert W. Fuller

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of…

— Lydia Sigourney

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

— Sima Qian