Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kiyosaki

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

This sounds ironic, but the growing need for fresh labor and investment are now weighing on profit trends, together with high levels of commodity prices.

Charles Babbage

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.

Karl Marx

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Karl Marx

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

The big drivers of the currency are commodity prices and interest-rate increase expectations.

Stocks with significant foreign exposure should help to support stocks. If the dollar continues to fall and commodity prices remain strong, then earnings are likely to be stronger than investors currently expect.

It's a commodity to them, but to us it's our community.

Karen Walker

It's a fun product, not a commodity product, so you don't have to worry about them all the time because your sunglasses cost $700,

Barry Ritholtz

It was a matter of time before the core rate started feeling the effects of increased energy and commodity prices. Maybe it's aberrational but maybe it's the start of something more significant.

It may be just a matter of time before the public's inflation expectations start to rise. Commodity prices are soaring.

It's been an impressive start to the year, the strength has been amazing. The strong commodity prices have made a big contribution.

Australia's dollar is obviously growth sensitive and the market won't muck around in pricing it down when commodity prices fall.

Christopher Lasch

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

It's mainly the commodity play that's keeping the rand resilient.

It looks like the economy picked up in the second quarter. The leap higher in commodity prices is helping underpin profits and driving export earnings and investment.

Dennis saw our Web site, and doo-wop music is a hot commodity on the East Coast. With our contract, Collectables will license, manufacture, advertise, promote and distribute the album. We then get a percentage of every piece sold.

A sector stock fund doesn't give one true exposure. There are times when the underlying commodity is moving and the companies are not. It's a different investment. So, when you're looking for true diversity, you want a direct relationship to the commodity.

As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.

Rapid travel is a commodity that will be more and more in demand. The Concorde still has seven or eight years in front of it ... but we have to get it back into shape.

Our earnings in the third quarter reflect the impact of the relatively volatile industry environment on commodity prices and industry margins.

The narrowing trade surplus reflects some weakness in electronics exports and rising commodity imports but it's unlikely to be enough to relieve pressure from the U.S. in the short term.

The oil market has been driven by speculators, by hedge funds, by pension funds and by commodity indexes, but the fact of the matter is that it's mostly been driven by the fundamentals. Prices are supported by the fact that there is no spare capacity.

Raghuram Rajan

Oil and other commodity prices are going to have some effect over time.

Oil and gas goes up and down. Now, it's a high commodity and high production. As long as it holds, we'll see that kind of valuation.

Dell could figure out a way to sell Itanium, but they sell commodity stuff. It really doesn't fit their business.

DBC is designed for investors seeking portfolio diversification and exposure to global commodity returns, which have one of the lowest correlations to US equities and bonds. This platform will provide investors with systematic exposure to global commodities without the complication and difficulty of investing directly in futures contracts or in the commodities themselves.

Competition is going to rear its ugly head as companies cross over into each other's territory, ... Price has always been the key focus for telecom. It's a commodity business.

There's a relatively small pool of people with in-depth commodity trading experience, and there's an even smaller number of people who have had any exposure to managing third-party money.

There's enough value left in resources stocks to remain optimistic. Commodity prices are locked in over fairly long-term contracts for many of them, so there's an element of safety too.

Peter Wright

A lot of those commodity stocks are pretty reasonably priced and we would continue to see gains in that sector, though they would be moderate.

It suggests there could be a profit squeeze in some of the cyclical industries, ... Autos. Household appliances. Anything that has a lot of raw commodity in it. The end user is going to have a hard time passing those costs on to the consumers.

Max Clifford

This is an extremely lucrative sport and a glamorous one. He can make a lot of money and be a very valuable commodity for advertisers.