Quotes About Scarcity

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

The problem is simple: the world has too many people and not enough resources.

it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

When we're down to eating our ancestors," she asked, "what is left?

When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.

No se acaba por ansiar aquello de lo que menos se dispone, lo que es distinto, lo que encandila y encanta, lo que sorprende?

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

One man's famine makes another man's feast.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

My childhood was spent in a poorish neighbourhood in Leicester so that makes you cherish money more than if youd had a lot.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

When the earthquake hit Christchurch in 2011, the factory that produces Marmite was closed for two years. The supermarket shelves were empty and people were selling jars for hundreds of dollars on eBay. It was absolute meltdown; we called it 'Marmageddon.'

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.