Quotes About Scarcity

Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

So little time and so little to do.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Fight scarcity power and corruption; correct externalities; try to maximise information; get the incentives right; engage with other countries; and most of all embrace markets, which do most of these jobs at the same time.

if there's a profitable deal to be done between somebody who has something unique and someone who has something which can be replaced, then the profits will go to the owner of the unique resource.

Rioting over food: how could this be? Here was all this grain, food enough to feed half the world, sitting in piles at the train station, going to waste. Something was out of balance.

The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. .

Self-sufficiency is another word for poverty." Matt Ridley TW: @

Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.4 Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. An explanation of scarcity for rich intellectuals, showing how poor people do stupid things for lack of money, while rich people do stupid things for lack of time.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

El capitalismo premia lo que es raro y a la vez valioso.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A

If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.