Scarcity Quotes

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.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

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.

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

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.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

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

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

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.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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.

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.

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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.

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

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.