Quotes about Scarcity

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

The scarcity of such face time in remote working situations makes it seem that much more valuable. And as a result, something interesting happens: people don't waste the time. An awareness of scarcity makes them use it wisely.

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

Our small, scarcity-based worldview is the real aberration here, and I believe it has largely contributed to the rise of atheism and the "practical atheism" that is the actual operative religion of most Western countries today. The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

Does the Almighty One operate from a scarcity model of love and forgiveness?

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.