Commodity Quotes - Page 2

• Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Empathy, Culture

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• The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

  Adam Smith

  Reales, Malos, Hombres

  Adam, Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, p.24, Aegitas

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• No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Hate, Airplane, Kids

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

  Veerappa Moily

  Commodity Prices, Oil, Marketing

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• Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.

  Phillip Mann

  Ignorance, Humble, Men

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Oil, Degrees

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• Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

  Peter McWilliams

  Acceptance, Law, Discipline

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1993). “We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• El dinero no se entiende. El hecho es que si quieres tener éxito, el dinero te seguirá. Si eres médico, algo más te seguirá. Si tienes éxito, hay un acompañamiento. Si tu objetivo es sólo ganar dinero, no tendrás éxito. El dinero es un bien que hay que utilizar, no dejarse dictar por él.

  Frank Lowy

  Wisdom, Business, Successful

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• Como todas las mercancías valiosas, la verdad suele falsificarse.

  James Gibbons

  Verdad, honestidad, mentira

  James Gibbons (1896). "El embajador de Cristo"

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• La experiencia me ha demostrado que el verdadero dinero ganado en la especulación ha estado en los compromisos en una acción o materia prima que muestra un beneficio desde el principio.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Real, Commitment, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). "Cómo operar con acciones: La fórmula Livermore para combinar el elemento tiempo y el precio"

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• For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

  Larry Lucchino

  Distance, Cancer, Benches

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• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Voice, Musical

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• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Office, Political

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• Es aquí donde llegamos al meollo de la cuestión. El principio económico de la ventaja comparativa", "un país puede, a cambio de productos manufacturados, importar maíz aunque se pueda cultivar con menos mano de obra que en el país del que se importa...".

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Educational, Race, Loser

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

  Fred Brooks

  Communication, Men, Tasks

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• Si las comunicaciones de masas mezclan armoniosamente, y a menudo de forma imperceptible, el arte, la política, la religión y la filosofía con los anuncios publicitarios, llevan estos ámbitos de la cultura a su denominador común: la forma mercancía. La música del alma es también la música de los vendedores. Lo que cuenta es el valor de cambio, no el valor de verdad.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Arte, Filosofía, Comunicación

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). "El hombre unidimensional: Estudios sobre la ideología de la sociedad industrial avanzada", p.57, Beacon Press

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• Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Smell, Looks

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

  Richard Baxter

  Hombres, Yo, Manos

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.128

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• La paz es la ausencia de guerra, pero más allá de eso la paz es un bien como ningún otro. La paz es seguridad. La paz es una mentalidad. La paz es una forma de vivir. La paz es la capacidad de trascender las heridas del pasado, de romper los ciclos de violencia y forjar nuevos caminos que digan: me gustaría asegurarme de que vivimos como una comunidad en la que hay justicia, seguridad y desarrollo para todos sus miembros. Al fin y al cabo, la paz es una inversión; es algo que se crea invirtiendo en un modo de vida y controlando adónde van los recursos.

  Noeleen Heyzer

  Herir, Paz, Guerra

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• Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Quality

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.9, Penguin

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