Definition of Scarcity

Scarcity

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.

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Scarcity Quotations

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Adam Smith

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell

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

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
Ernest Thompson Seton

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.
Sharon Stone

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
David Ricardo

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.
Esther Dyson

Money is a way of creating scarcity.
Peter Coyote

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Kenichi Fukui

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
William Henry Ashley

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.
Chris Anderson

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Thomas Love Peacock

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
Jim Mitchell

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Scarcity Translations

scarcity in German is Knappheit, Mangel
scarcity in Italian is strettezza
scarcity in Spanish is escasez
scarcity in Swedish is knapphet

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