Scarcity Quotes

You want to talk about scarcity. There are no more truck drivers. - Stephen Fraser

With the prospects of increased activity, it is expected that serious stresses will be placed on the skills available to the sector. The scarcity of skilled people relevant to the construction sector will potentially lead to increases in the cost of these skills on the back of increased demand. - Pierre Blaauw

With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day's close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn't give us much comfort that investors are being protected... There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card issuers over the past three years, and with MBNA being acquired, there's some scarcity value for Providian. But their shareholders are not getting it. - Sean Egan

What we're trying to sell the fans on is the scarcity of tickets. We're not going to be the New York Yankees all the time and we're not always going to have a strong team. - Roy Mlakar

We saw water scarcity spreading across the globe. - Colin Sabol

Water scarcity runs rampant throughout our world with 1.1 billion people having no access to safe water. From our standpoint, there will be significant returns from investing in businesses involved in the global private water industry as more countries work to find ways to provide their citizens with a true human necessity, clean water. - Alex Seagle

Vietnam was able to get a fairly low cost last year because of the scarcity of the paper. On the other hand, a frequent issuer like the Philippines won't be able to enjoy the same borrowing costs even though they have the same ratings. - Agost Benard

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. - A S W Rosenbach

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. - Willa Sibert Cather