Quotes About Thrift

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

If enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates, whatever may be happening to thrift; and if enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever thrift may be doing.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.

We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

I don't really shop unless it's thrift.

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.

The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.

I've always been a thrift store kid.

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

Thrift is of great revenue.

I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.