What CORPORATIONS fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining PRICES and profit MARGINS, increasing COMPETITION, and lowered barriers to entry.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity LIKE coffee, which, thank God, we will have with US always. At some point the oil will RUN out.

I look at myself objectively and in a WAY I see myself as a commodity. Your name BECOMES somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at HOME being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

The OWNER of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - WOULD be a fool not to keep a CLOSE eye on the numbers. But when I make BIG decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

As a BASEBALL player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you WONDER, 'What the hell am I doing that is so HOT?'

I didn't like the NAME 'PERSONAL shopper.' That makes it SOUND like too MUCH of a commodity and not personal enough.

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a LONGER or shorter period. The PRICE PAID for such TEMPORARY use is commonly called hire.

Public-policy-wise, if you WANT to be consistent, crude OIL is a bulk commodity, and you should be ABLE to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to GET refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the MONEY.

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by EVERYONE having access, you LOSE some ASPECT of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.