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Quotes About Supply

There is no toilet paper.
~ Toni Morrison
In an age of vastly expanded universities, with periodicals, journals and lecturers urgently seeking 'copy', there emerged a market for 'theories' of every kind—fuelled not by improved intellectual supply but rather by insatiable consumer demand.
~ Tony Judt
The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth
~ Caroline Adderson
Demand may be a suitable subject for psychologists, supply may be the province of engineers or management scientists; both are beyond the scope of economics.
~ George Soros
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
~ George W. Bush
Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.
~ George W. Stocking
When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace, came a chance for spiritual openness. I
~ Gerald G. May
Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.
~ Jack London
With the very rapid expansion of distribution platforms, we want to be in the supply chain with as many types of programs as we can.
~ Haim Saban
I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.
~ Frank Black
We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.
~ John W. Snow
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
~ Milton Friedman
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
~ David Ricardo
The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
~ Bayard Taylor
It teaches that desires and wants are in man, that the power of supply is also in man; and that wherever and whenever a desire, a want, a prayer has been fulfilled, it was out of this infinite magazine that the supply came, and not from any supernatural being.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Restoring the air supply cannot re-create what has evanesced.
~ Ted Chiang
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
~ Al Capone
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.
~ Richelle Mead
an increase in the supply of paper money, and hence a decrease in the purchasing power of the currencies in which most bonds were denominated. A rational investor who anticipated a major war would sell bonds in anticipation of these effects.
~ Niall Ferguson
The closure of the stock market and the intervention of the authorities to supply liquidity almost certainly averted a catastrophic fire-sale of assets.
~ Niall Ferguson
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
modern terms, what Law was attempting could be described as reflation. The French economy had been in recession in 1716 and Law's expansion of the money supply with banknotes clearly did provide a much-needed stimulus.52
~ Niall Ferguson
the world produced more chips in 2021 than ever before—over 1.1 trillion semiconductor devices, according to research firm IC Insights. This was a 13 percent increase compared to 2020. The semiconductor shortage is mostly a story of demand growth rather than supply issues. It's driven by new PCs, 5G phones, AI-enabled data centers—and, ultimately, our insatiable demand for computing power.
~ Chris Miller
Gazprom's new management was little better than the Vyakhirev-era elite.63 The company was widely alleged to facilitate corruption through its procurement deals. Many companies that supply Gazprom are owned by long-time friends of Putin's
~ Chris Miller