Demand Quotes - Page 19

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

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 -- !

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.