Life of scarcity teaches creativity.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

— Thomas Fuller

“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.”

— William DeBuys

There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important…

— Julian Simon

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

— Maude Barlow

“Poverty is a mindset: It creates that sense of scarcity. You then become accustomed to it such that your life is hinged on protecting…

— Oscar Bimpong

Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason…

— Steve Rushin

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

— Shantideva

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit…

— E. F. Schumacher

“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling…

— Murray Bookchin

“It is not in vain that the strategic criterion of placing only short runs on the market prevails in order simultaneously to create a…

— Enrique Badia

“For an example of how perception of a limited supply can increase sales, look no further than Amazon.com. My recent search for a DVD…

— Nir Eyal

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…

— Adam Brody

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral…

— Ravi Zacharias