Quotes About Supply

A buyer can buy anything from wherever he gets it cheap. Where will the Indian trader or farmer go in this case? Are we ready to see people sitting with their product and no international retailer wanting to buy from them?

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

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

Fuel prices are really a pressure point, and they have had an impact on food and other things as well.

As demand goes down, you will see prices come down.

Increases in output generally lead to lower prices, not higher prices.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.

Production is the only answer to inflation.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

The United States is a huge market, and once you get rolling, you can replicate that model over and over pretty easily. Your supply lines are taken care of. You don't have technicians to deal with. You've got your customer base.

Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

The sudden, brilliant victory in France, like a Frankenstein monster, had turned against us; we had far outstripped our ability to supply the troops.

Kindness—such a simple thing—but in such short supply, he reflected, that one would have thought it had to be imported to London from somewhere as far away as the Saharan desert,

Supply and Why We Are Increasingly at Risk (Basic Books, 1997; Penguin, 1998).

Sharp drops in the money supply then led to severe recessions. The country needed an elastic currency and a permanent lender of last resort.

The struggle for the survival of the fittest, in the sea and on the land the world over, as well as the law of supply and demand, were observed in all the ages past until the Standard Oil Company preached the doctrines of cooperation, and it did cooperate so successfully and so fairly that its most bitter opponents were won over to its views and made to realize that rational, sane, modern, progressive administration was necessary to success.103

Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.

In the nurseries, the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson was over, the voices were adapting future demand to future industrial supply. I do love flying, they whispered, I do love flying, I do love having new clothes, I do love...

Markets need a fresh supply of losers just as builders of the ancient pyramids needed a fresh supply of slaves. Losers bring money into the markets, which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.

Because of a steel shortage brought about by war preparations