Quotes About Abundance

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

It's not as though you feel satisfied after collecting a certain amount of stuff. Instead, you keep thinking about what you're missing.

There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between buyers and sellers.

I can't do anything in moderation.

I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.

I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Money just draws flies.

There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

Capital tends to be scarcer and therefore more expensive in poor countries, while labor tends to be more abundant and therefore cheaper. Poor countries tend to save on the most expensive factor, in the same way that rich countries save on a different factor that is more expensive and scarce there, namely labor. In rich countries, it is capital that is more abundant and cheaper, while labor is scarcer and more expensive.

en exceso. Muchas veces el mismo producto está en ambas categorías al mismo tiempo: escasea en una

Prosperity is not about money, but about attitudes.

More abundance can lead to more competition. If ordinary people live at subsistence levels, powerful people can't really take much away from them—not if they want to come back and take more the next time there's a harvest. But the more ordinary people are able to produce, the more powerful people can confiscate.

Agricultural abundance creates rulers and ruled, masters and servants, and inequality of wealth unheard of in hunter-gatherer societies. It enables the rise of kings and soldiers, bureaucrats and priests—to organize wisely, or live idly off the work of others.

Man-made light was once a thing that was too precious to use. Now it is too cheap to notice.

Glory,' he added, reciting carefully, 'is the only commodity that seems to increase the more you spread it around.' I'd heard a similar version of that saying; it started Glory and dogshit are the two commodities . . .

If you have only a few ideas in your idea bank, you're more likely to settle on one of the few you have and defend it fiercely, even if it's not optimal. But when ideas are plentiful and easy—if you (or your team) have a dozen a day—then there's no need to become territorial about them.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now.