Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce…

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the…

— Ben Bernanke

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to…

— Dana Rohrabacher

Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the…

— William Ashworth

It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while…

— Sam Harris

It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because…

— Richard Louv

We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is…

— Elisabet Sahtouris

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a…

— Stephan Kinsella

Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent…

— Walter E. Williams

I got to carve through the streets of New York's financial district and discover the awesome feeling of being part of a system where,…

— Lewis Schiff

Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year…

— Leonard Read

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some…

— Stephan Kinsella

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

— Jane Poynter

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

— Esther Dyson

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental…

— Henry Paulson