Quotes About Supply

We need new eating methods to take account of the new ways we are being supplied with food.

The logistics of the operation would have boggled most minds: the American contingent alone called for 6.6 million sets of rations, five thousand crated airplanes, five thousand carrier pigeons and accompanying pigeoneers, and a somewhat unambitious 144,000 condoms, fewer than two each.

With the money supply no longer constrained by the amount of gold held by the government, deflation stopped almost immediately.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

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.

If global oil prices or commodity prices are high, then it is bound to create inflation. So, we should not be too worried if the inflation is created by global commodity prices. When they come down, inflation will automatically come down.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

Whether the oil will last long enough is a different subject and one I tackle later in the book: briefly my answer is that substitutes will be adopted if the price rises high enough.)

What most of these doomsday scenarios have gotten wrong is the fundamental idea of economics: people respond to incentives. If the price of a good goes up, people demand less of it, the companies that make it figure out how to make more of it, and everyone tries to figure out how to produce substitutes for it. Add to that the march of technological innovation (like the green revolution, birth control, etc.). The end result: markets figure out how to deal with problems of supply and demand.

Most of us have a lot more experience being consumers than producers, so we tend to view things through the lens of demand rather than supply.

No entanto, quando se prende um fornecedor, cria-se uma situação de escassez que, inevitavelmente, impulsiona os preços para cima, o que atrai ainda mais fornecedores para o mercado. A guerra contra drogas movida pelos Estados Unidos tem sido relativamente ineficaz exatamente por concentrar-se nos vendedores, não nos compradores.

Why has the prostitute's wage fallen so far? Because

Adam Smith called it the paradox of value: when an important good becomes plentiful, it costs far less than what people are willing to pay for it. The difference is called consumer surplus, and the explosion of this surplus over time is impossible to tabulate.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Cardiac muscle cells burn fats for fuel, so the heart is especially vulnerable to even subtle deficiencies in the factors contributing to ATP supply: coenzyme Q10, D-ribose, and L-carnitine. These

Control the Inventory - Control the profits!

Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and an infinite supply of all that is necessary.

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Hitachi Nail Guns were as good as gold in this city for years. I had 300 on pawn, and then when they stopped building houses in Vegas I wound up with 300 Hitachi Nail Guns that I can't give away.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.