Quotes About Thrift

Many people in the mid–nineteenth century kept such journals to enforce thrift and also objectify their moral performance.

Rockefeller never lost his ingrained sense of thrift.

That is, the man who would be rich must be thrifty.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

The frivolous can waste more by the teaspoon than the frugal can bring home by the wheelbarrow.

Through our combined efforts the kids received your everyday heartland upbringing, based on the same old bedrock values: a belief in the importance of hard work, honesty, neighborliness, and thrift.

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

One dresses off a frequent-buyer card at Goodwill, the other like he got lost on the way to a séance. Know them?

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

I've always shopped on the sale rack, and I've always been the girl flipping through the hangers trying to find the best deal.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece - I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don't need to buy throwaway furniture.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to. She

My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought us at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Value Village, and garage sales. My late sister studied my mother's denim quilt and said, 'That's a lot of pants. There's been a lot of ass in those pants. This is a blanket of asses.