Become Quote by Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables…

— Virginia Postrel

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

— David Ricardo

“Effective Supply Chain Management is key to the attenuation of global scarcity of vital commodities.”

— Wayne Chirisa

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much…

— John Bright

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

— Peter Schiff

Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

— James P. Gorman

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

— Murray Rothbard

Supply creates its own demand.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

— Travis Kalanick

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater…

— Robert Heilbroner

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes