Quotes & Sayings About Scarcity Mentality

People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie. — Stephen Covey

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to ... rather than detracts from ... our lives. — Stephen Covey

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality. — Debasish Mridha

Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality. — Wayne W. Dyer

Often, people with a Scarcity Mentality harbor secret hopes that others might suffer misfortune - not terrible misfortune, but acceptable misfortune that would keep them "in their place." They're always comparing, always competing. They give their energies to possessing things or other people in order to increase their sense of worth. — Stephen R. Covey

The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have. — Wayne Dyer