Rohstoffe / Commodities Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Rohstoffe / Commodities:

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. Elliott Abrams

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Ana Castillo

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

Kenneth Lay

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

David Ricardo

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Karl Marx

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Jonathan Kozol

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

David Ricardo

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

David Ricardo

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Rudolf Hilferding

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Sol LeWitt

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Pat Benatar

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Herbert Marcuse

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Maria Cantwell

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

T. Boone Pickens

A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

Neil Strauss

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

Steve Hanke

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

Carroll Quigley

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Rudolf Hilferding

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

David Hume

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Christopher Lasch

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.

Lobsang Tenzin

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Jim Rogers

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Rudolf Hilferding

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Joseph Hume

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Alfred Marshall

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Jim Rogers

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

Uday Kotak

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

James Buchan

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Jim Rogers

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Sellapan Ramanathan

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

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

David Ricardo

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

Kevin Brady

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

John Buchanan Robinson