Quotes About Supply And Demand

#1. The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Andy Grove

#2. Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Adolf Loos

#3. Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Your competitive advantage is formed by the interplay of three different, ever-changing forces: your assets, your aspirations/values, and the market realities, i.e., the supply and demand for what you offer the marketplace relative to the competition. The

Reid Hoffman

#5. When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market.

Chris Anderson

#6. Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.

Alex Berenson

#7. Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Jerry Saltz

#8. A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

Bill Hicks

#10. Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

Mason Cooley

#12. The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.

Milton Friedman

#13. What a commodity has cost to produce in the past cannot determine its value. That will depend on the present relationship of supply and demand.

Henry Hazlitt

#14. The Americans' great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.

Geoffrey Wood

#15. Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.

George W. Stocking

#16. If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

Bill Kovach

#17. The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand.

Joseph Salerno

#18. The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Ricardo

#19. Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

Ron Wyden

#20. Prices are determined by supply and demand, and demand is determined by how intensely people want a commodity and what they have to offer in exchange for it.

Henry Hazlitt

#21. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.

Tyler Cowen

#22. The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

Chester A. Arthur

#23. Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.

Kurt Eichenwald

#24. Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

#25. Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Jeremy Grantham

#26. The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#28. It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

Jim Courier

#29. The Broader interpretation that often seems to underlie the new economy label is that we are witnessing a more fundamental change in the paradigm. The old rules no longer apply. Throw out the NAIRU. Heck, throw out supply and demand. No limits, no business cycles.

Laurence Meyer

#30. The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

David Harvey

#31. The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

Gary Miller

#32. Marx then asks how wages are determined and answers that the price of labour is determined like the price of any other commodity. It may rise or fall according to supply and demand,

Anonymous

#33. You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Thomas Carlyle

#34. A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.

Lacey Baldwin Smith

#35. Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

Agatha Christie

#36. I have learned that when you've done your homework, once you recognize that supply and demand are totally out of whack, and you make your move, you are definitely going to get very lucky.

Jim Rogers

#37. In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.

Tim Bishop

#38. Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.

Michael Hudson

#39. Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tyler Cowen

#40. People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

Carl Andre

#41. Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Trevor Dunn

#42. I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

Tyler Perry

#43. Supply creates its own demand.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#44. As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Robert Kiyosaki

#45. The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

Joe Vitale

#46. When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

Fred Wilson

#47. Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

Wang Jianlin

#48. My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there's an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we've found your true calling.

Lisa Kleypas

#49. We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Frances Wright

#50. Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#51. Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

Maajid Nawaz

#52. Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.

Brian Spellman

#53. From Adam Smith's pin factory to Moore's Law of microchips, the division of labor drives the extension of the market, not the other way around. Supply creates its own demand through the proliferation of goods and services down the curves of learning, entropy, and imagination.

George Gilder

#54. He envisions the supply chain as an "intricate network of suppliers, distributors, and customers who share carefully managed information about demand, decisions, and performance, and who recognize that success for one part of the supply chain means success for all.

Michael H. Hugos

#55. We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

Tom Peters

#56. How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

Sue Monk Kidd

#57. Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

Elbert Hubbard

#58. Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#59. demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin. They are the same thing looked at from different directions. Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand. The supply of the thing they make is all that people have, in fact, to offer in exchange for the things they want.

Henry Hazlitt

#60. Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Ryan Lilly

#61. Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.

Jamshyd Godrej

#62. As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price.

Alex Berenson

#63. The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

#64. There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

Mario Andretti

#65. An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#66. 'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.

Peter Thiel

#67. [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#68. A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#69. Housing without people, and people without housing.

Milad Hanna

#70. There's randomness and there's the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man.

Daya Kudari

#71. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

Edmund Ruffin

#72. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#73. When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

Sunday Adelaja

#74. Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

Gyan Nagpal

#75. No matter who we are, where we live or our status in life, we would never really be able to escape the demands and supplies of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#76. A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

Gary Miller

#77. Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.

Diana Gabaldon

#78. People have needs and wants. We call that DEMAND. There are also people who service these needs and wants. That is called SUPPLY. If there were no people to serve, there would be no business. So the true definition of business is nothing more than: PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE.

Ian Fuhr

#79. Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s).

Niall Ferguson

#80. I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven.

Bre Pettis

#81. The demand and supply of life is STRETCH.

Sunday Adelaja

#82. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Abraham Lincoln

#83. Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

Narendra Modi

#84. Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Ben Bernanke

#85. If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

Judy Biggert

#86. If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Lucky Luciano

#87. I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.

Pat Toomey

#88. I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

David Plotz

#89. To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

Alex Berenson

#90. You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.

Dick Morris

#91. All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

Al Capone

#92. Because people along the route had realized that there was demand and quickly organized supply. That's so Chinese. In a well-organized country like Germany, such a problem may not have arisen in the first place, but in China people immediately recognized an opportunity.

Zhang Xin

#93. I see the role of IT as a change agent. It empowers, connects and can bind isolated parts of India and create harmony. IT can join people with governments, bridge the gap between demand and supply, and can bring us closer to knowledge.

Narendra Modi

#94. The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

Geoffrey Wood

#95. The lion's share of the problems that really bother us don't call for additional technology, theory, philosophy, or data (we're up to our necks in that); instead, the problems call for the ability to change what people do. And when it comes to this particular skill, demand far exceeds supply. Given

Kerry Patterson

#96. Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

Pallam Raju

#97. The government's drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived and unevenly and unfairly enforced based on race and class, and thus intellectually and morally bankrupt. And those things all were true.

Piper Kerman

#98. It is not about what you like, it is about what life demands. It is the demand of life and you must supply it.

Sunday Adelaja