Definition of Scarcity

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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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