Top Commodity Quotes
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
Rudolf Hiferding
If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
Brett Hull
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
John Buchanan Robinson
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
David Ricardo
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The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
Susan George 
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The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
Jim Rogers
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I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting
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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Fred W. Friendly
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
George Soros
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Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
Jim Mitchell
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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo
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Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Henry Wotton
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Popular Commodity Authors
Adlai E. StevensonEdwin Louis ColeKarl Marx StingTim RobbinsRon ChernowLeslie FiedlerSusan GeorgeChristine BaranskiOmar BongoC. L. R. JamesGeorge SorosDaniel J. BoorstinDavid RicardoJohn Buchanan Robinson
John D. RockefellerRiver PhoenixHunter S. ThompsonChristy RomanoLeonard BoswellPeter DeFazioLyn NofzigerLarry DixonBrett HullMichelle ShockedCarol KaneArchie SheppJim RogersAldo LeopoldRudolf Hiferding
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