Quotes About Resources

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

If you're not in the right classification, you're basically stealing funding and opportunities from other people. This is not the NFL. There's only so much money to go around.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

If we continue to assume that we are parts of the physical world and that the evolutionary process that brought us into existence is part of its history, then something must be added to the physical conception of the natural order that allows us to explain how it can give rise to organisms that are more than physical. The resources of physical science are not adequate for this purpose, because those resources were developed to account for data of a completely different kind.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

What was here yesterday would be here tomorrow, and if it wasn't it was no great matter. What mattered was the earth and what it could provide.