34 Scarcity Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Politics First Economics Lesson Enough Those Scarcity Never Want Anything Who Fully Satisfy Disregard

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

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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Johnson

Value Owes Scarcity Only Like Praise Diamonds Gold

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough. Brene Brown

Me Enough Kids Scarcity Abundance Opposite

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize. Kurt Bills

Reality Resources Scarcity Various Ration Consume Calculate Economists Make Deal How Items Produce Choices Utilize

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

Money Complaint Scarcity More Than Common

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

Natural World Result Rest Poverty Before Rich Other Our Unlike Scarcity Priorities Imposed Any Century Set

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most. Paul Samuelson

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock

Resource Plenty Scarcity Waste

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

Prevail People Fear Will Else Hungry Scarcity About Someone Mortgages Pie Piece Frightened Model Begins Get Going Paying

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Chris Anderson

You World Gift Free Valley Scarcity Silicon Silicon Valley Economic Abundance Know Force Opposed Handled Really Technical Right

The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. Craig Venter

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Medical disenfranchisement is fueled by a host of factors that include worsening shortage of primary care doctors in needy communities and a troubling scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured. Adding to the trend are fewer medical students choosing primary care over more lucrative and specialized fields. Danny K. Davis

Treat Care Trend Doctors Needy Adding Willing Scarcity More Factors Host Troubling Students Primary Over Insured Providers Fewer Shortage Fields Fueled Uninsured Communities Choosing Include Lucrative Specialized Publicly Medical

The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity. David Autor

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We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet. Guilherme Leal

Change Challenges Natural Water Resources Several Scarcity Prevailing Mention Unsustainable Parts Inequality Climate Climate Change Still Loss Huge Forests Regarding Natural Resources Planet Use Farmland Serious Biodiversity

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. Henry Walter Bates

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. Jim Mitchell

Time Scarcity More Any Commodity Create

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources. Joe Lonsdale

Scarcity is a good sales tactic if you are selling something people want. Katie Hopkins

Good You People Scarcity Something Tactic Something People Sales Selling Want

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity. Margot Lee Shetterly

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For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy. Martha Beck

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