Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

It is the buyers who have created the demand for ardent spirits and made distillation and importation a gainful traffic .... Let the consumer do his duty, and the capitalist, finding his employment unproductive, will quickly discover other channels of useful enterprise.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

I have respect for beer.

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

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.

The Congress also passed legislation authorizing the sale of beer in such states as desired. This has already resulted in considerable reemployment and, incidentally, has provided much needed tax revenue.

If people don't want it, they won't have it.

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

I like beer.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.