92 Scarcity Quotes
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Famous Scarcity Quotes
Scarcity is a function of quantity. Urgency is a function of time. This is where you only limit when people can sign up, rather than how many. — Alex Hormozi
So therefore this is scarcity that humans can’t f*** around with. — Raoul Pal
We evolved for scarcity but live in abundance. — Naval Ravikant
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. — Robert Anton Wilson
In abundance prepare for scarcity. — Mencius
What sustains this 'win-lose' mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others. — William Ury
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. — Thomas Sowell
Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity. — Andy Murray
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. — Edwin Way Teale
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E. F. Schumacher
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus
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
There is enough in this world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Short Scarcity Quotes
- Willful waste makes woeful want. — Scottish Proverbs
- The most successful people in the world have a mindset of abundance, not scarcity. — Andrew Tate
- There is one fish in the pond, and ten anglers on the bank. — Vietnamese Proverbs
- Sharing the figs can leave you with none at all — Greek Proverbs
- Gaming notebooks aren't that abundant. — Jensen Huang
- The mice are fighting over the neighbor's yeast. — Moroccan Proverbs
- Money doesn’t grow on trees. — English Proverbs
- There is no bad food in a famine. — Filipino Proverbs
- The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity. — Balaji Srinivasan
- If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat — Greek Proverbs
Water Scarcity Quotes
The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment. — Nelson Mandela
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. — Maude Barlow
Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. — Vandana Shiva
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. — Steven Solomon
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. — Frank Herbert
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water. — Ed Begley, Jr.
Food Scarcity Quotes
To feel obligated to finish all of your food is to be living with a mindset of scarcity. It is the little things from our childhood that have the longest impact. — Isaac Mashman
You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people. — Frances Moore Lappé
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world. — Frances Moore Lappé
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. — Anna Lappe
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
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. — Frances Moore Lappé
Scarce Resources Quotes
By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens. — Balaji Srinivasan
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard. — Richard M. Nixon
Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. — Greg Mankiw
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. — Ban Ki-moon
In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy. — Dana Rohrabacher
We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body. — Stephan Kinsella
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. — Peter Thiel
If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning. — Llewellyn Rockwell
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources. — Tom Peters
Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources. — Jose Angel Gurria
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A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. — Ravi Zacharias
When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away. — Martin Cooper
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. — Walter Brueggemann
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. — Wayne Dyer
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. — Ban Ki-moon
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. — Truman Capote
The operation of a market economy is dependent on prices, and prices, to be accurate, are dependent on a common medium of exchange, which reflects the relative scarcity of different goods. If this is easy money, the ability of its issuer to constantly increase its quantity will prevent it from accurately reflecting opportunity costs. Every unpredictable change in the quantity of money would distort its role as a measure of interpersonal value and a conduit for economic information. — Saifedean Ammous
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects. — Balaji Srinivasan
Needers are reactive, competitive, and live in a world of scarcity, which is draining, disappointing, and leads to feelings of failure. — Dan Sullivan
GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT…GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED …THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE — Bernard Lietaer
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. — Kenichi Fukui
Money does not grow on trees. — American Proverbs
Hard money inherently requires an unavoidable production cost; proof of work is fundamental. People value gold as hard money, because it is scarce. And the scarcity inherently means there must be a production cost for more units. So it is with bitcoin, digital gold requires PoW. — Adam Back
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
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. — Adam Smith
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless. — Thomas More
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
In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance. — Shantideva
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke
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
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
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. — Thomas Love Peacock
Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team. — Pete Carril
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