Quotes About Scarcity

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.

Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins early in bull markets - and overachieved in the later phases - they couldn't do much about it.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Goat shit small, but goat shit plenty.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in fact. But between those who want to eat and the bursting warehouses stands a tall obstacle indeed: politics.

I didn't want that fellow to get used to buying modern pictures,' he said. 'There are too many of them.' Duveen was never eager to sell anything painted after 1800, because the fertility of the nineteenth-century painters would have sadly upset the Duveen economy of scarcity.

But since the resources of individuals are small, while the multitude of those who need them is unbounded

When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.

They were wearing camouflage gear direct from central casting, and if it hadn't been for the guns I might have laughed, not yet realizing that female laughter would soon be in short supply.

It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.

Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value.

You cannot imagine how time … can be … so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce. — Margaret Edson (Wit: A Play)

They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

We are running out of time

Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence.