Commodity Quotes

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

What if we're seeing the stirrings of 'Dutch disease', whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

I'm a 36-year-old role player. It's not like that's a hot commodity.

Investors have an innate tendency to allocate money to sectors that make money, and the strong commodity bull market still has some way to run.

Buying food has turned into a commodity, so supermarkets have to continually raise the bar to keep their customers.

Providing clean, dependable and affordable electricity is the single most important commodity we can contribute to improving the quality of life in underdeveloped countries.

The rand, as a commodity-based currency, should benefit from the surge in precious metals' prices as it has in recent times.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is an empty threat. The problem for Philips is they are in such commodity businesses at the moment and production costs are much lower in Asia.

One day, when the commodity boom ends and foreign investors head for the exits, that could change the picture for the rand.

Some Western North Carolina farmers who have been selling commodity crops are not pleased with the prices they've been getting. Many are now looking for new markets and new ways to diversify their income, control the price they get for what they grow, and stay in farming. We are fortunate in Western North Carolina because we have many family farms and a community of people and businesses that wants locally grown food. This conference aims to give farmers the skills they need to reach these markets successfully.

Remember that oil disruption is a genuine bullish indicator for the commodity.

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

I believe in the program. I think it's a good thing when producers of any agricultural commodity can get together voluntarily.

Continued strength of commodity markets has been beneficial to the $A, but traders haven't been getting a lot of loving being long.

All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

[A composite commodity mutual fund may be the best answer for people looking for an inflation hedge, since it minimizes exposure to one particular commodity. Gold makes the headlines every now, as it did with its highs in February and in October . But because gold has basically been on hard times for so long, a short-term peak] is really a meaningless statistic for me, ... It's really coming from such a basement price.

An unprecedented amount of new fund money has been attracted to the LME by virtue of index buying (commodity indices) and structured products.

Correction? What correction? With the shorter-term players locking in profits and systematic CTA (Commodity Trade Adviser fund) selling met by trade and hedge fund buying, base metals have stabilized after a volatile 24 to 48 hours.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Corporate United gives you the leverage and agreements of a Fortune 10 company in your indirect commodity areas, allowing you to focus on more strategic (direct) areas supporting your organization's business.

The packaged food manufacturers' ability to raise and maintain prices to offset rising commodity costs will be a key test of the shifting of power to the retailer. Moreover, escalating costs have negatively impacted the small and midsize food companies more than their larger counterparts due to the smaller companies' higher proportion of fixed-costs and limited economies of scale.

From a big picture perspective, we are seeing a strong economy. We've seen high energy and commodity prices for a long time, and it hasn't had a substantial impact on the core rate of inflation.

Commodity prices are a risk to U.S. inflation and I don't think the market is pricing enough scope for that. If the Fed rate gets to 5.25 percent, then cash yields have to be at 5 percent plus.

We anticipate slower improvement in the company's LCD (liquid crystal display) profitability and typical seasonal weakness in overall commodity DRAM ( dynamic random access memory) market for the second quarter.

It's standard reasoning. When you have a commodity that's increased dramatically (in price), then it would attract the criminal element.