A brass key hangs above a row of small wooden boxes, one with its lid open.

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Gordon Gekko

The most valuable commodity I know of is information.

— Wall Street

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker declares that information is the most valuable commodity they know. Rather than money or goods, knowledge is treated as the real currency, since whoever knows more can act first and gain the most. The confident, transactional phrasing presents knowing things as a route to advantage.

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