Tangible Goods Quotes

The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).