commodities quotes

Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcityand from the labour required to obtain them.By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour.

- David Ricardo
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

If you can take $20,000 in one-hundred-dollar bills and walk up on a windy hill and tear themup and watchthem blowaway, and it doesn't bother you, thenyoushould go into the commodities market.

- Don(ald) John Tyson
  In the NewYorker, 30 May.