New York's niche is CONTENT, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard STERN or the radio station you use to LISTEN to him? Ultimately, technology BECOMES a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

Any commodity that SEES its price going higher will SEE new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the PRICES soften. When prices FALL, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

You can very EASILY be TURNED into a commodity. I've GROWN up with it.

I am CONCERNED about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to USE the ECONOMY, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

I have two KIDS, career and I travel, and I don't THINK my life is any DIFFERENT than most COUPLES. The most valuable commodity now for MANY people is time and how to parcel that out.

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.

Up to now, ECONOMIC development has ALWAYS meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has ALSO meant that, after a TIME, people must buy the commodity because the CONDITIONS under which they could get along without it had disappeared from their physical, social, or cultural environment.

The idea that content is king has long rested on the notion that DISTRIBUTION - in whatever FORM it takes - is a low-margin commodity, and the BIGGEST share of PROFITS flows to the creators of original programming, who can sell to the highest bidder.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special QUALITY, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes AWAY her name, while transforming her LOVER into a nameless customer of a MARKET of appetites.

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.