Excess Supply Quotes

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Unlike China's growth story, which has been built on the strategy of creating excess supply, the Indian growth story has been built on the strategy of responding to incentives generated by excess demand. Which is why a certain degree of inflation is built into the Indian growth process.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

I have enough make-up to last me five lifetimes.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There is no question we have an access stock.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.