Quotes about Commodity
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
- Oswald Chambers
What is the physical, tangible thing you are selling?
- Donald Miller
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
- Oswald Chambers
Make spending your time a matter of conscience. "Redeeming the time" (Eph. 5:16). Many people fool away their time, some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures which secretly bewitch the heart and take it away from better things. What are our golden hours for—but to attend to our souls? Time misspent is not time lived but time lost! Time is a precious commodity.
- Thomas Watson
As a precious metal, silver is also money.
- Robert Kiyosaki
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.
- Stephen Jay Gould
And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them.
- Marcus Aurelius
The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.
- Brigham Young
These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you'd do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.
- Seth Godin
Slowly it gets to be a waiting whose outward sense I cannot comprehend; the inward reason must be found daily. Both of us have lost infinitely much during the past months; time today is a costly commodity, for who knows how much more time is given to us.7 Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Maria von Wedemeyer, 20 September 1943
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.
- Donald Trump
And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.
- Frank Herbert