Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it's a good or some other consumable, or it's a luxury item. It's all a function of what do the raw materials cost.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

We have an imbalance over how much we produce relative to how much we consume.

The people of this country have been erroneously encouraged to believe that they could keep on increasing the output of farm and factory indefinitely and that some magician would find ways and means for that increased output to be consumed with reasonable profit to the producer.

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

When you’re dealing with a commodity, high productivity means that nobody makes any money.

If we intend to have the trade of the world, … we must be in a capacity of serving all markets and all humours.

You pay more for the TV commercial for the [breakfast] cereal than the farmer gets.

Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.