Quotes About Scarcity

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

State Senator Kemble made a speech opposing any enlargement of the NY&H's capital. When the news of impending scarcity hit Wall Street, the price of Harlem stock rose. At the top of the market, Kemble's broker sold short. Kemble then pushed a bill through the legislature enlarging Harlem's capital, and the price plummeted. As these were early days, and such behavior was still considered inappropriate, Kemble was expelled from the Senate.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

I nostri non erano così, mancava il tempo, mancavano i soldi, mancava la voglia

Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people—people they could get rid of.

Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at the resale value.

There are good quality people but definitely not in good quantity and ,unfortunately, not often in good financial condition.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Prospect theory explains why you feel terrible if you lose your watch, even if you have four other watches. You are mistaking it in your mind for your caveman's stash of buffalo jerky.

The point isn't to depress anybody. It is to remind us that in denominating time in memorable, scarce events, we have a much better sense of its scarcity.

Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.

We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

Sleep is getting to be like gold.

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Hoy, es un lujo leer a Sócrates, no por el costo de los libros, sino del tiempo escaso.