Better off Quote by Thomas Malthus

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

— David Ricardo

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

— David Ricardo

“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other…

— Ludwig von Mises

“A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It…

— Daniel Quinn

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any…

— Nicolas Berggruen

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it…

— David Ricardo

Goods which are not shared are not goods.

— Fernando de Rojas

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

— Joseph Hume

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to…

— Adam Smith

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

— Philip Kotler

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

— Rohini Nilekani

“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules…

— Karl Marx