Famous Quotes & Sayings

We still think commodity prices are at their peak and will gradually come off, but we've just pushed out the timing a little bit.

David Ricardo

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

David Ricardo

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

Carol Kane

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

We're fortunate that we live in a state that's deregulated because when the price of the commodity goes down the consumer sees a more immediate decrease in prices.

Leonard Boswell

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

With these other events, there's a commodity of some sort. We're running a Web site as well, so we would like to drive traffic there. Our feeling is, particularly in terms of a press conference, everybody is welcome to cover it, but if you want to see the full-blown transcription or if you want to watch the whole thing, then our site ought to be the place to find that.

Sharon Salzberg

There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.

We have significantly increased our short-term and long-term commodity price forecasts to reflect our expectation of sustained tight markets and ongoing deficits in 2006.

Miners have been massive in the past 12 months. The commodity bull-run has been enormous.

We've seen a recovery in gold and crude oil prices that has supported the commodity currencies.

Mark Zandi

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Bryan Cranston

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Gautam Adani

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

We're at the top of the commodity cycle right now. Moderating demand and improving supply will see a fall in prices going forward.

Richard Griffiths

The reaction today will be fairly neutral because it's very near what analysts were forecasting. In terms of share price is going to be led more by the commodity prices.

Adam Smith

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Sarah Churchwell

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

There is a revival in global growth now underway that is lifting the U.S. manufacturing sector and hence, commodity prices and wages.

Funds are throwing a lot of money at all the commodities, and most of the commodity markets have been rallying.

I expect higher commodity prices and escalating short-term interest rates to push regional growth down significantly in the second half of 2006.

I expect a weaker opening here due to a higher yen and a fall in U.S. stocks, while a halt in recent rises in oil, gold and other commodity prices is a plus.

Fred W. Friendly

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Andrew Tobias

Life insurance is a commodity.

What we're waiting to see is whether the increase in commodity prices will sift through into core inflation.

Donald Trump

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

David Harvey

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

Kimberly-Clark is currently facing a number of global challenges, including commodity cost pressures (natural gas, fiber, energy), higher selling, general and administrative costs and a still difficult playing field in Western Europe.

I think it definitely helps me. We're a commodity in today's game.

He was a known commodity to a lot of the Indiana schools out there. They shied away because of his size.

Gold put in a pretty good performance. When the dollar has been strong, commodity prices have been weaker, and when the dollar has weakened there has been a rebound.

Gold is a hot commodity now, so more people, especially large hedge funds, are paying attention.

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.