Scarce Quotes - Page 9

• There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Mind, Killing

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• The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

  Kevin Kelly

  Leadership, Sports, Attention

  Kevin Kelly (1999). “New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World”, p.75, Penguin

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• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

  Seth

  Opportunity, Scare, Way

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• We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.

  Jay Inslee

  Community, Atmosphere, Needs

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Punishment, Suffering And Death

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• It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, War, Hatred

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2008.

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• You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Waste, Patient, Poor

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• Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

  William Ashworth

  Basketball, Rivers, Lakes

  William Ashworth (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.

  Murray Rothbard

  Land, Important, Example

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• A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Zero, Technology, Data

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Competence is no longer scarce.

  Seth Godin

  Competence

  Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.16, Penguin

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• The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

  Richard Steele

  Son, Men, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125

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• When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knaves, Betray, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Men, Creation

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• If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

  Zig Ziglar

  Needs, Ifs

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• Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Leader, Good Leader, Following

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• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

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• Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

  Leonard Read

  Years, Skills, People

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• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Heart, Men

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• The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).

  Stephan Kinsella

  Party, Self, Acting

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Marijuana, Excellence

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vanity, May, Speech

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.11, Penguin

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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