Scarcity Quotes

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

(He adds that chaos communications could do wonders for bandwidth on the Internet. ) It would eliminate any scarcity in the ability to transmit information, ... You would never have to wait for anything to download and you could use capacity on demand.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day`s close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn`t give us much comfort that investors are being protected, ... There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card issuers over the past three years, and with MBNA being acquired, there`s some scarcity value for Providian. But their shareholders are not getting it.

With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day`s close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn`t give us much comfort that investors are being protected. There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card issuers over the past three years, and with MBNA being acquired, there`s some scarcity value for Providian. But their shareholders are not getting it.

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 first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.