Quotes About Scarcity

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? But realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by.

There is not enough time for anything, ever.

When you're older you'll come to realize that acts of kindness are few and far between in this world of ours.

To feel obligated to finish all of your food is to be living with a mindset of scarcity. It is the little things from our childhood that have the longest impact.

I sogni dei partigiani sono rari e corti, sogni nati dalle notti di fame, legati alla storia del cibo sempre poco e da dividere in tanti: sogni di pezzi di pane morsicati e poi chiusi in un cassetto

Scarcity is historical, as historical as gender or sex. The era of scarcity could come to be only on the assumption that 'man' is individual, possessive, and, in the matter of material survival, gender-less - a rapacious neutrum oeconomicum.

Above all, by depriving people of the ability to satisfy personal needs in a personal manner, radical monopoly creates radical scarcity of personal--as opposed to institutional-service.

A limited offer has unlimited appeal.

For most of history, our lives were defined by scarcity. Today, the defining feature of social, economic, and cultural life in much of the world is abundance.

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink." But by the end of the day, I have an idea.

One did not complain about having in abundance that which others wished desperately to obtain.

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

If we assume that all men have the same capacity and application for work and if we disregard the disutility of labor, labor in such a world would not be an economic good. If

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

Os discípulos de Jean-Jacques Rousseau que exultavam com a natureza e o estado paradisíaco do homem em seu estado natural não se deram conta do fato de que os meios de subsistência são escassos e que o estado natural do homem é a insegurança e a pobreza extrema.

What makes a treasure a treasure is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.