Elasticity Quotes

This kind of volatility is to be expected in markets with supply inelasticity. - Susan Wachter

They're (computer manufacturers) taking price cuts to sell more units... That hurts hardware companies' revenues. Since Microsoft charges the same for their products regardless of what PC makers do, that price elasticity helps them. - Kevin McCarthy

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not? - Carol Vorderman

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. - Albert Schweitzer

The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines. - George Shiffler

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. - Rutherford B. Hayes

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. - Kenneth Branagh

So society, when out of order, which it is whenever the interests of the many are regularly and outrageously sacrificed to those of the few, must be repaired, and either a reform or a revolution cleanse its corruptions and renew its elasticity. - William Hazlitt

No other protein investigated so far, with regard to their elasticity, revealed such a behavior. When excessive forces are applied [to] the spiral's structure, it may break down and the individual repeats may unfold. However, when the external force is released, the repeats will re-fold immediately and recreate the spiral, and thus fully recover their elastic properties. - Piotr Marszalek