Supply And Demand Quotes

• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Demand, Parrots, Teach

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• Supply creates its own demand.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Demand, Economics

  Jean-Baptiste Say (2016). “Jean-Baptiste Say and Political Economy”, p.42, Routledge

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• I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

  Al Capone

  Men, Gangsta, Demand

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• The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Doe, Demand

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• The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

  David Harvey

  Upset, Demand, Reactions

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

  Trevor Dunn

  Marketing, Demand, Depth

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

  Al Capone

  Drinking, Demand

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• The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.

  Milton Friedman

  Moving, Perfect, Borders

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Would Be, Demand, Shortage

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.62, Hoover Press

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• People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

  Carl Andre

  Country, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Two, Political

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• Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

  Adolf Loos

  Demand, Form

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• The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

  Andy Grove

  Demand, Internet

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

  Bill Hicks

  Being Yourself, Law, Demand

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• Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

  Tyler Cowen

  Creative, Trying, Demand

  Tyler Cowen (2012). “An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies”, p.25, Penguin

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• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Justice, Competition

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greed, Despair, Demand

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

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• Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Quality, Deterioration

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• We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we just give things to each other; if we don't know each other we find another way to handle it. If you think about it, each according to his or her abilities and each according to his or her needs is sort of the same thing as supply and demand.

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

  Van Jones

  Wind, Law, Demand

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

  Leonard Read

  Years, Skills, People

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• In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

  Paul Krugman

  Essence, Ideas, Apples

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Together, World, Demand

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

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