Quotes About Scarcity

Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

I have learned that the fear and discomfort around there not being enough money is internal.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.

Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.