Quotes About Scarce

Internal or external, in my experience startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.

If the cold had reached this deep into the forest, it would be bitter on the high moor. And with prey so scarce, the moor cats would surely freeze or starve if they stayed in their hollow. They'd be safer here, sheltered by the trees, hunting together, as Fluttering Bird had ordered.

Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.

in part because financial crises are (fortunately) rare enough that relevant data are scarce.

pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people

Men of integrity and courage are rare these days.

What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.

Time is the ultimate wealth.

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

Some within the government and some former revolutionaries had finally realized that there was no way the Islamic regime could make us intellectuals vanish. In forcing us underground, it had also made us more appealing, more dangerous and, in a strange way, more powerful. It had made us scarce and, because of this, also in demand.

time, which was one commodity that money could not buy.

Historical data are scarce, not least because suicide, also called "self-murder," used to be a crime in many countries, including England until 1961.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Allá en casa la pobreza era tanta que desde muy temprano uno aprendía eso de no gastar en cualquier cosa. Todo costaba dinero. Todo era caro.

Time is the least thing we have.

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral.

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

But if the wolves are too numerous, or food is scarce, the number of pups in a litter may fall to as few as one or two.

The scarcest resource in journalism now is attention span.

exiguous resources.

This is why mysteries are the best kind of stories: because you only get the truth at the very end, when you're absolutely desperate, and that way of arranging things makes you realize how scarce truth is, in stories and in life, and that it's really all that matters.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.