Quotes About Scarcity

Ein Schatz wird erst dadurch zu einem Schatz, dass du ihn so schwer findest, wenn du ihn am dringendsten brauchst.

The media is trained to find bad news and broadcast it to you. The more they do it and you believe it, the worst the world looks. It then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You live from the new paradigm of scarcity and the media, doing its job, broadcasts it. You don't even see it happening. It feels real. You take it as reality.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

When a child is deprived and neglected, he has a much harder time delaying gratification. Our wounded inner child believes that there is a severe scarcity of love, food, strokes, and enjoyment. Therefore, whenever the opportunity arises to have these things, our inner kid goes overboard.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it." Because

People who give with no strings attached almost always have an abundance mentality. They are generous because they believe that if they give, they will not run out of resources. Pastor and former college professor Henri Nouwen states, "When we refrain from giving, with a scarcity mentality, the little we have will become less. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

I have found this to be true. Someone once asked me why he should adopt an abundance mentality, and he was surprised by my answer. I told him that if you believe in abundance, that's what life gives you. If you believe in scarcity, then that's what you get.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Whoever desires is always poor.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Desires stay unaware of man's fragile existence authored by scarcity

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

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

Note that the call to action is strong and contains a degree of scarcity because it is a one-time offer. Anyone who reads this e-mail knows exactly what we want them to do: board their dog at Crest Hill.

Most people avoid you because they can't afford you.

Y es que el amor -lo que se dice amor- / llega muy pocas veces, aunque se obstinen tantos / en convertir el aureus en moneda corriente...

I personally bought three liters of kerosene two days ago. And now there's just a drop left on the bottom, not enough to stick up a dog's ass. You just can't leave anything in the kitchen anymore.