Scarcity Quotes

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.

Meditation is the alchemist of the soul. It transforms disappointment into acceptance

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.