Quotes About Scarcity

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price - let the law of supply and demand take over!

Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

There aren't 32 of them in the world that I think can be quarterbacks of Super Bowl champion teams. Supply is short.

For those of us who are lucky enough to not worry about where our next meal is coming from, it can be difficult to consider a life where the choice and supply of what you eat is extremely limited.

Whenever I see watercress, which isn't very often, I think of the rich. I think they are the only people who can afford it and they use watercress in exotic recipes that they keep hidden in vaults from the poor.

I imagined a world of the future as a barren sameness in which everyone had gorged so much fish that no more remained, & where Science knew absolutely every species and phylum & genus, but no-one knew love because it had disappeared along with the fish

Whereas in the earlier forms of the family men never lacked women, but, on the contrary, had too many rather than too few, women had now become scarce and highly sought after. Hence it is with the pairing marriage that there begins the capture and purchase of women-wide-spread symptoms, but no more than symptoms, of the much deeper change that had occurred.

If Bertie was a god (a favourite fantasy), she would be manufacturing things there was a shortage of - bees, tigers, dormice - not flip-flops and phone covers and toothpaste.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

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

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

Time flies when you're running out of money.