Quotes About Frugality

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

My philosophy is to save, spend minimally, and buy things as much as you can on sale, never pay full price, and just don't spend a lot of money at the end of the day.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

If you want to retire as a multimillionaire, then you need to start saving as early as you can.

When I was a kid, I was big into saving up my money.

I'm all about saving money.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.

I am naturally cautious so I guess I am a saver. I'm a firm believer in not borrowing money, which is a lesson passed down to me from my parents and grandparents.

COMPETED WITH YOU, MY DEAR, IN DEVOTION, VIRTUE, FRUGALITY, AND LOVE—BUT I ALWAYS LOST. I WISH EVERYONE THE SAME FATE.

Tout ça sentait les économies de bout de chandelle, pas la misère mais la médiocrité, ce qui est indéniablement beaucoup plus impardonnable.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

I don't really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I'm not into bags, so I don't pay a lot for them; I get them from H&M and Topshop.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

I live way below my means.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

the law of parsimony.

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason:

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko:

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.