Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel… — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. — Lionel Charles Robbins Copy Share Image
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I do not ask for a path with no trouble or regret. I ask instead for a friend who'll walk with me… — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I got to carve through the streets of New York's financial district and discover the awesome feeling of being part of a… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy,… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image