Quotes by Scarcity The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future. Sendhil Mullainathan scarcitylittlespeople 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. Seth Godin scarcityrealbook Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity. Shakti Gawain scarcitypovertylevels In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance. Shantideva scarcityagemay I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. Sharon Stone scarcitygivingthinking It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity. Seth Godin scarcityquittinghurt Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. Steven Solomon scarcitywatermen Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity. Steven Pinker scarcityclimatewaste The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock scarcityresourceswaste There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes. Thomas Paine scarcitycreditmen 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. Thomas Sowell scarcitylessonspolitics In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time. Tim Harford datingscarcitymean 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. Tony Robbins scarcitypeoplethinking Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. Walter Brueggemann scarcityanxiousneighborhood Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination! Walter E. Williams scarcitycauseschoices The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have. Wayne Dyer scarcitygratitudegiving 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." Wayne Dyer scarcityeastgrowing-up It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. Will Oldham excessscarcity I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. Yossi Ghinsberg scarcitygreedexpression Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. Jim Mitchell morecreatescarcitytime«12345»
