Goods Quotes

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. View quote
David Hume
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. View quote
Henry Ford
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. (William Stanley Jevons)
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. View quote
Tryon Edwards
The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. View quote
Carl Menger
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. View quote
Herman Gorter
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation. View quote
Peter Garrett
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. View quote
Todd Gitlin
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods. View quote
Pythagoras
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. (Robert Mugabe)
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although-to the more imaginative at least-a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves. View quote
Alain de Botton
Cynicism is cheap-you can buy it at any Monoprix store-it's built into all poor-quality goods. View quote
Graham Greene
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. View quote
Ayn Rand
I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say