Quotes About Demand

Millions of men and women throughout the nation are still engaged in this popular pastime of trying to GET without GIVING. Some of them are lined up with labor unions, where they demand shorter hours and more pay! Others do not take the trouble to work at all. They demand government relief and are getting it.

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today. On every hand there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the man or the woman who makes a better mouse-trap or performs better stenographic service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more accommodating bank.

organic food is in higher demand, thanks to the minority rule, distribution costs decrease and the minority rule ends up accelerating in its effect.

Tales tinha o direito — mas não a obrigação — de usar as prensas caso houvesse um súbito aumento na demanda; a outra parte tinha a obrigação, mas não o direito. Tales pagou um preço pequeno por esse privilégio, com uma perda limitada e um grande resultado possível. É a primeira opção de que se tem registro. A opção é um agente da antifragilidade.

Some professions, such as dentists, consultants, or massage professionals, cannot be scaled: there is a cap on the number of patients or clients you can see in a given period of time.

these careers face a continuous supply of these stressors that make them adjust opportunistically.

The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.

El público es caprichoso; es capaz de negar la justicia común cuando se le exige violentamente como un derecho, lo es también de conceder más allá de lo justo cuando el requerimiento se verifica como a los déspotas les gusta, entregándose por completo al amo.

When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can't insist on love or demand affection. you're finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

Because Wayna Qhapaq had not actually married Washkar's mother—the union was properly incestuous but not properly legitimate—the new Inka demanded that his mother participate ex post facto in a wedding ceremony with his father's mummy.

the world of 10 billion, water experts project, the demand for water could be 50 percent higher than it is now. Where will it all come from? New supplies will not be easy to find. Few lakes and rivers are unexploited, and aquifers are being depleted. Equally difficult would be stretching existing water supplies by reducing waste and encouraging thrifty use. Adding to the pressure, climate change is shrinking glaciers and drying streams.

Yippee. I haven't had this much fun since I was in the Transhuman Police, mixing it up with superpowered neo-Nazis, and by fun I mean fuck me I demand a pay rise and a nice quiet office job—

Bert confused a burst of new spending caused by growth in the money supply with an increase in demand for his products.

Pushing his face against Raskin's, his whisper a maniacal shriek, he demanded, "Who could want to see this? Who?

the way women are starting to demand equal rights

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.

Every time a new technology enables more choice, whether it's the VCR or the Internet, consumers clamor for it. Choice is simply what we want and, apparently, what we've always wanted.

Rule 8: Trust the market to do your job.

De pronto, la popularidad ya no tiene el monopolio de la rentabilidad.

Por lo tanto, a medida que la demanda se oriente hacia los nichos, mejorará la economía y creará una retroalimentación positiva que transformará todas las industrias (y la cultura) en las próximas décadas.

En casi todos los mercados hay más bienes de nicho que productos de éxito.

Sin embargo, ofrecer simplemente más variedad no cambia la demanda. Hay que ayudar a los consumidores a encontrar los nichos que se adaptan a sus necesidades e intereses particulares.

Una vez que se ha expandido la variedad y se aplican los filtros para navegar por ella, la curva de la demanda se aplana.

open-innovation communities connect latent supply (talent not already employed in that field) with latent demand (products not already economical to create the usual way).