Quotes by Scarcity I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable. Adam Brody scarcitynicedirectors What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. Adam Gopnik scarcityinnovationease No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. Adam Smith scarcitymoneyreality The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. Alan Cohen scarcitylovethinking 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. Anna Lappe hungerscarcitydemocracy Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along. Astra Taylor scarcitycarewant 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 scarcitypiepeople If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives? Brigham Young scarcityrealbread Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. Brigham Young preparednessscarcitysurvival When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time. Charles Eisenstein scarcityslaverysurvival The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. Charles Eisenstein scarcityisolationcommunity Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you. Claude C. Hopkins scarcitydollarswriting Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control. David Icke abundancescarcitychoices Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them. David Ricardo commodityscarcitytwo 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. David Ricardo scarcityarbitrarygold As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer. Dewitt Jones scarcityvisionanswers Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land. E. F. Schumacher scarcitylandanswers And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke government-welfarescarcityhands Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. Edwin Way Teale scarcityspacemoving 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. Esther Dyson scarcityattentionthinking12345»
