Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

There are a lot of investors out there who look at oil as a leading indicator for commodity investing.

There are many players in the commodity insurance business. But we feel insurance is a relationship business. People come to us with problems, and we try to give them solutions.

There hasn't been a lot of correlation between commodity prices and inflation since 1990.

To replace a commodity material, you have to get those economies of scale.

With prices of oil and metals rising higher, shares of commodity producers will benefit.

Hugh Laurie

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

Jonathan Daniels

Expect to see commodity prices jump. It's not going to happen today or tomorrow, but it's something we need to be prepared for.

Peter DeFazio

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Typically, when commodity price estimates decline, so do the stocks. These are dangerous times.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Ludwig von Mises

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

Most commodity prices ended firmer last week and that has revived confidence in metal stocks.

We have more than doubled that (2005) outlook and we have done that on the back of some very strong energy and commodity prices, and not without a lot of other good news. I don't see how it can continue.

US Federal Reserve will definitely raise the interests rates, however, current oil price is undergoing a relatively long period of climbing. By taking that kind of situation into consideration, it is an inevitable tendency the price of oil and commodity will continue to rise.

While commodity prices have been rising Australia's interest rate spread has been narrowing.

We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, things of that nature, but that inflation doesn't always get passed on to the consumer level.

Those are the ones that are very cyclical, and the economy has a big impact, but they become very cheap, ... Companies like some of the commodity semiconductors, the integrated device technology types.

Looking ahead, we continue to be positive on gold, seeing multiple hand-offs between fabrication and investment demand, and between commodity fundamentals and macro/monetary catalysts.

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.

Andrew Tobias

Life insurance is a commodity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Carol Kane

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