Goods Quotes

People imagine that Netflix sprang fully formed into a global streaming giant, but Netflix might have been personalised sporting goods – or customised shampoo – or even pet food, since these were all ideas that I pitched Reed Hastings in those first months.

Companies are changing the way they do business, what goods and services they provide and they are constantly reevaluating the type of workforce they employ.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

The Miracle Mop created an entirely new category of stick goods – the twist mop. And when I demonstrated it for people, they’d invariably say, ‘I have to have that.’

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.

A gold standard doesn’t imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

Consumers need more insight into the goods and services they purchase. Businesses need to produce those goods and services more sustainably.

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you’ll buy it.

In China‘s big cities, American products – say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods – are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

It’s got to be repetition of me over and over again, constantly delivering the goods every time I’m out there. And that’s how I’m going to get to where I need to be, which is in an important match at WrestleMania every year.

No weather forecaster can tell you for sure when to wear a rain slicker, stock up on canned goods, or evacuate a city that’s in a cyclone’s path. All forecasters can offer is their best guess at the atmosphere of the future, whispered by the simulated blue marble and wrapped up in uncertainty.

If you don’t produce the goods, you’re very quickly forgotten.

I don’t buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products – no down, nothing. It’s something people should be mindful of.

India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

I know I’m not some matinee idol, but I think we’re sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.

Developing the locally-run industry is very important in increasing the production of consumer goods.

I believe many people – especially small- and medium-sized enterprises across the European Union – are disenchanted with Europe because we haven‘t delivered the goods.

Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.

I’m not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, ‘I need 10,000 more of whatever.’ But I can’t – because then it’s not art, it’s something else.

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people’s behaviour.

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

If God has given you the world’s goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

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.

As more and more people are automated out of the economy through robotics and self-driving cars and other technologies, there will be a way to create value for other human beings online. There will be a virtual economy for exchanging value, goods and services, entertainment experiences, and all that.

The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens‘ preferences?