Dogen Zenji Quotes

Invention is the mother of necessity.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

There is a supply for every demand.

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

Our need will be the real creator.

Your greatest resource is your time.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

What we want is not always what we need.

Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

Wanting and needing are two different things.

Everything that I make I use.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.