"The demand for commodities is not the demand…" — John Stuart Mill

More Commodities Quotes

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• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their… — Bono
• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in… — James Buchan
• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children… — Margaret Chan
• [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea… — Marjory Stephenson
• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. — James Gibbons
• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may,… — David Ricardo
• If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas — David Landes
• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise… — Henry Charles Carey
• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper… — Murray Rothbard
• The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a… — Alexander Hamilton
• The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state,… — Alexander Hamilton

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