Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

Our strong operating results in the third quarter of 2005, bolstered by continuing high commodity prices, should lead to a record year for the company.

Glenn Tilton

other U.S. competitors who provide a commodity product with the barest minimum of service.

Standard & Poor's does not expect major margin improvement in fiscal 2006 for the larger players. Even though commodity prices have stabilized, they remain at historical highs.

Some of these commodity stocks continue to surprise us today.

Some of the commodity investors went back into the market with the Iranian issue still looming as a worry.

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

Right now, the acceleration in commodity prices tips the scales for a 16th and a 17th rate hike by the Fed.

Red dirt is a big commodity because of all the growth in the area. It gives that solid foundation everybody's looking for.

Oracle RAC has come a long way in establishing itself as a key technology in delivering unparalleled high availability and scalability solutions for Oracle databases. Forrester estimates that there are more than 1,200 customers who are currently using RAC in production, and this is likely to double in the next 12 to 18 months as enterprises look to deploy low-cost commodity servers and extend their applications to support higher availability.

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.

I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oil and commodity prices. Regional markets also benefited from positive fund flows.

I think the American industry has stopped considering (small cars) as commodity vehicles,

Kimberly-Clark is currently facing a number of global challenges, including commodity cost pressures (natural gas, fiber, energy), higher selling, general and administrative costs and a still difficult playing field in Western Europe.

What we're waiting to see is whether the increase in commodity prices will sift through into core inflation.

Donald Trump

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

Andrew Tobias

Life insurance is a commodity.

If we see signs that the economy is in fact slowing, and inflation remains contained, then the pause is a positive for stocks. But if we see tightness in the labor market, pressure in commodity markets, that could suggest we will see further hikes.

Mark Zandi

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Miners have been massive in the past 12 months. The commodity bull-run has been enormous.

We have significantly increased our short-term and long-term commodity price forecasts to reflect our expectation of sustained tight markets and ongoing deficits in 2006.

We note that the judge has explicitly said that, irrespective of any intellectual property, database, or other rights, BHB has, in the data, a valuable commodity for which it is entitled to charge.

Looking ahead, we continue to be positive on gold, seeing multiple hand-offs between fabrication and investment demand, and between commodity fundamentals and macro/monetary catalysts.

There are a lot of investors out there who look at oil as a leading indicator for commodity investing.

There are many players in the commodity insurance business. But we feel insurance is a relationship business. People come to us with problems, and we try to give them solutions.

Hugh Laurie

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

The big drivers of the currency are commodity prices and interest-rate increase expectations.

Stocks with significant foreign exposure should help to support stocks. If the dollar continues to fall and commodity prices remain strong, then earnings are likely to be stronger than investors currently expect.

It suggests there could be a profit squeeze in some of the cyclical industries, ... Autos. Household appliances. Anything that has a lot of raw commodity in it. The end user is going to have a hard time passing those costs on to the consumers.

I'm not hearing people talk about commodities shares being good value any more. Rising costs and a steadying of commodity prices will show up more and more in earnings.

On balance, recent inflation reports have shown the Fed evidence of pipeline commodity price pressures but with little impact on consumer inflation trends,

Onassis told Jerry about it at a dinner in New York. People trusted Jerry because his word was his bond. It's a rare commodity now.

Madeleine Peyroux

It's work. I recognize that it's work, and it can be hard work, so making it a commodity is not so hard to believe.