Supply Quotes

During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

The only way to buy more is to produce more.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.

5,000 units will saturate the market.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last 3 minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?

When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

Good wares make good markets.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round

As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."

The battle of competition is fought by the cheapening of commodities

There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

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