Quote by Adam Smith

“Never Consume more than you produce.”

— Ayn Rand

“the world produces more than enough food for all of us to thrive.”

— Francis Lappe

“...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.”

— Ben Sasse

“Therefore, it is not food shortage that causes war, but rather the inability for mass cooperation at such large scale.”

— FastReads

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there…

— John Stuart Mill

“a product can decrease in perceived value if it starts off as scarce and becomes abundant.”

— Nir Eyal

“The produce of the soil maintains at all times nearly that number of inhabitants which it is capable of maintaining. The rich only select…

— Adam Smith

“Worse is coming. Materialism, the prevailing religion of the world, the motivator of nations, adores greater consumption.”

— Bob Brown

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

— Raheem Devaughn

“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behvaior toward it.”

— George Ainslie