Quotes About Supply

The very minute you are not depending on bread alone for your life, you are spiritual. The very minute you know that money isn't supply, that money is only one of the forms that supply takes for our temporary use—the minute you know that—you're spiritual.

You can't escape it: when scientists test the water supply of Western countries, they always find it is laced with antidepressants, because so many of us are taking them and excreting them that they simply can't be filtered out of the water we drink every day. We are literally awash in these drugs.

They explain that when a popular product is criminalized, it does not disappear. Instead, criminals start to control the supply and sale of the product.

A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula.

Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.

I do believe in the free market.

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.

The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce too much energy when societies don't need it and not enough energy when they do.

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

This meant there was nothing the Spartans could do to prevent their enemies from being supplied by sea.

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.

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

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.

If something is legal and profitable, it will happen, a lot.

Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn't solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.

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