Goods Quotes

“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity

“Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Ukitaka kufanikiwa katika maisha angalia watu wanataka nini halafu wape. Kama wanataka burudani wape. Kama wanataka elimu wape. Kama wanataka bidhaa wape. Kama wanataka huduma wape. Wape kwa msaada wa wataalamu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure

“Those who believe in quality produce quality goods.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One good product is better than many fake goods.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Utopia begins with durable goods.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal.”
― Carl William Brown, L'Italia in breve.

“Nyota ni kipaji, kipawa, takdiri, karama, au uweza; ni kiashiria cha rohoni kinachoonyesha mtu atakuwa nani baadaye, mafanikio ya mtu, au takdiri ya maisha ya mwanadamu. Unabii na nyota ya ufalme ni kibali cha Mungu katika maisha ya mtu. Kupata kibali hicho, tembea na watu sahihi katika maisha yako (tembea na watu ambao Mungu amekuchagulia kushika funguo za takdiri ya maisha yako). Tamka na kukiri kibali cha Mungu katika maisha yako yote. Panda mbegu za kibali cha Mungu katika udongo wa maisha yako. Jifunze kutenda mema bila malipo, kwani wema ni mbegu ya kibali cha Mungu. Jali mambo ya ufalme wa Mungu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Those who believe in quality produce quality goods. Those who love quality buy quality.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Man can only use money to buy man-made goods.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Money can only used to buy man-made goods.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Money can only be used to buy man-made goods.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Lo, none is allowed to take his goods with him,
Lo, none who departs comes back again!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Many products are signals first and material objects second. Our vast social-primate brains evolved to pursue one central social goal: to look good in the eyes of others. Buying impressive products in a money-based economy is just the most recent way to fulfill that goal.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Money is a means for exchange of goods as well as services.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There was nothing he needed or wished to buy; but he liked to see the display of goods, any goods, objects made by men, to be used by men. He enjoyed the sight of a prosperous street;”
― Ayn Rand

“Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

“People believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better.”
― Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals

“Le Faust à l'envers. L'homme jeune demande au diable les biens de ce monde. Le diable (qui a un costume sport et déclare volontiers que le cynisme est la grande tentation de l'intelligence) lui dit avec douceur : « Mais les biens de ce monde, tu les as. C'est à Dieu qu'il faut demander ce qui te manque - si tu crois que quelque chose te manque. Tu feras marché avec Dieu et, pour les biens de l'autre monde, tu lui vendras ton corps. »

Après un silence, le diable qui allume une cigarette anglaise ajoute : « Et ce sera ta punition éternelle. »”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942