#Scarcity Quotes

“There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.”

“The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.”

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

“Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.”

“The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.”

“Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.”

“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”

“The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.”

“I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."”

“We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.”

“The beautiful is never plentiful.”

“If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.”

“The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.”

“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.”

“Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.”

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

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

“I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...”

“If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.”

“If all men were rich, all men would be poor.”

“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”

“For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.”

“There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.”

“Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.”

“I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.”

“When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.”

“in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“Time is the scarcest resource.”

“Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.”

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.”

“There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.”

“When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”

“We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.”

“You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”

“Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.”

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”

“It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.”

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.”

“Too many piglets not enough tits.”