Quotes About Scarcity

Panic moves you to hoard essentials and prevent others from getting what they need.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

the Bamboroughs were not-enough-to-eat poor.

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

the effects of a decline in any one person's after-tax income are dramatically different from those of an across-the-board decline. If you alone experience an income decline, you're less able to buy what you want. But when everyone's income declines simultaneously, relative purchasing power is unaffected. And it's relative purchasing power that determines who gets things that are in short supply.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Throughout American economic life, regulatory barriers to entry and competition limit innovation by providing excessive monopoly privileges through copyright and patent laws, restrict occupational choice by protecting incumbent service providers through occupational licensing restrictions, and create artificial scarcity through land-use regulation. They contribute to increased inequality while reducing productivity growth.

Everywhere there is much complaining about too few leaders. We have too few because most institutions are structured so that only a few—only one at the time—can emerge.

Kindness—such a simple thing—but in such short supply, he reflected, that one would have thought it had to be imported to London from somewhere as far away as the Saharan desert,

No hay en este mundo suficiente de nada para todos. No hay suficientes alimentos, suficiente amor, suficiente justicia y nunca hay suficiente tiempo.

More and more of this hunger you have comes from deeper feelings of scarcity. And a lot of this is stemming from the workings of your ancient brain. It's scanning your environment and the negativity bias is being activated, preventing you from enjoying all the good you have.

Success is cool. But significance is rad. Generosity—not scarcity—is the trait of all of the great men and women who have upgraded our world. And we need leaders, pure leaders and not narcissists obsessed with their own self-interests, as never before.

Having plenty of money is what life wants for you. Abundance is nature's way. There's no scarcity of flowers, lemon trees and stars in the sky.

Nunca ha sido tan fácil como ahora manejar el cotarro en los negocios, porque muy pocos competidores invierten los medios necesarios para dominar en su sector. La perfección es una rareza, y la gente que opera al nivel más alto es muy escasa. ¡Así que el triunfo está asegurado!

The continuation of the Yankee blockade threatens more danger to our cause, by the consequent scarcity & high prices of necessaries of life, than do the Yankee arms & armies & fleets.

How was the rain in the city?" "Too much," said Ishvar. "Streets were flooded many times. And here?" "Too little. The devil held his umbrella over us. Let's hope he shuts it this year.

Thomas Jones, a Loyalist judge in New York, wrote that not "a stick of wood, a spear of grass or a kernel of corn could the troops in New Jersey procure without fighting for it.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours