Big Quote by Virginia Postrel

“Retailers are more vulnerable than manufacturers to small changes in volume because it adversely affects their asset turnover, which is a much bigger driver…

— Greg Thain

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

— Jim Rogers

At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about…

— Andrew Curry

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

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think…

— Pat Toomey

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at…

— Robert Reich

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

“As chain stores rise, there is also a loss of dynamism, competition, and market entry for new ideas and products. Keep in mind that…

— Tyler Cowen

“If you know a product’s life cycle, you can time your strategic decisions. A product is at the end of its life cycle when…

— Victor Cheng

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“It is not in vain that the strategic criterion of placing only short runs on the market prevails in order simultaneously to create a…

— Enrique Badia

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity,…

— Adam Smith