Time as a Commodity Quotes

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.