Quotes About Scarcity

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

La rebelión sentimental de las masas, el odio a los mejores, la escasez de éstos. He ahí la raíz verdadera del gran fracaso hispánico (JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

This pressure leads to a scarcity mindset—we believe that there will never be enough time, so we say no to changes because we feel like we don't have the hours to cultivate new positive habits.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Great books are rare.

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

What is important is that in a capital-scarce country like India, the real interest rate needs to be positive enough to encourage healthy growth of financial savings; we get into macro difficulties when real rates on financial savings become negative for a length of time.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

It's hard to get concert tickets.

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

Alarm-based marketing logic often goes something like this: There is a limited quantity (scarcity). Unless you act now (urgency), you'll lose your opportunity (consequence). When crafting a message for an audience who is stuck in apathy or indecision, deadlines and consequences overcome inertia to create action.

MORE MICA THAN SAND.

Beliefs in scarcity help create your wars and the taking of more than is needed from the Earth. If everyone could create the abundance that is his or her natural birthright, you would have fewer reasons for war or to harm the Earth. Your new beliefs will draw to you many new ideas about ways to create abundance for everyone, ways you have not even conceived of yet that tap into sunlight and other unlimited resources.