Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We… — Sharif Abdullah Copy Share Image
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and arable land. The most constricting… — William R. Allen Copy Share Image
“the typical response to scarcity is a lapse in clear thinking. Assess products and services solely on the basis of their price… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich.… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“For an example of how perception of a limited supply can increase sales, look no further than Amazon.com. My recent search for… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of… — Arielle Ford 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
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This… — Tim Harford 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
Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image