Top 240 Scarcity Quotes & Sayings

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

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

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

Nothing creates cool like scarcity.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

The biggest mistake we make is asking the source to understand scarcity - something that is not! People pray: "Please give me more..." Or, "Please heal me." If you do this, you'll only attract more scarcity into your life. You can't think about what's missing in your life, what you don't like, or what "they" want for you.

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

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

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

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

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

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

I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

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

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

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

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

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

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

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.

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

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

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.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

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

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.