Goods Quotes

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

We are come for your good, for all your goods.

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.

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.