Quotes and Sayings About Scarcity
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
-- Adam Gopnik -
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
-- Adam Smith -
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
-- Brené Brown -
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
-- Brigham Young -
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
-- Brigham Young -
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
-- Clay Shirky -
Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.
-- David Icke -
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
-- David Ricardo -
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
-- David Ricardo -
As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.
-- Dewitt Jones -
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
-- Edwin Way Teale -
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.
-- Esther Dyson -
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
-- Gary Zukav -
Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.
-- George Gilder -
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
-- Henry Rollins -
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.
-- Herman E. Daly -
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
-- Iain Banks -
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
-- James Clavell -
When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.
-- Jan Struther -
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
-- Jason Silva -
The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.
-- Jim Stanford -
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
-- John Berger -
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of all—human beings. . . . [An] increase in the price of peoples’ services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us.
-- Julian Simon
