Quotes About Frugality

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

It was the only time before or since when Americans became emotionally invested in the idea of self-deprivation and frugality. Third graders roamed their neighborhoods in packs, gathering scrap materials, tires, and paper and cooking fat and old sneakers whose soles could be sacrificed for the rubber. The Big Three automakers stopped making cars and started making planes. Factory workers took secrecy oaths. Everybody had a secret now.

But the billion-dollar cut was anything but self-defeating tinkering. Many of the research scientists were energized. They cleaned out the cobwebs and refocused their thinking, many spending quality time with customers. The result was scores of innovations that matter. Frugal was a catalyst, not a catastrophe.

Jugaad started as the Hindi word for an ultracheap vehicle first fashioned by rural Punjabi carpenters. Having nothing but empty pockets and a problem to solve, the local craftsmen took an old diesel irrigation pump, attached it to a wooden frame, and added wheels and the discarded steering system from a broken-down jeep. They called this jalopy "jugaad," roughly translated as "using few resources and a lot of determination to find an innovative solution to a problem.

He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.

the only cheap life was a dull life.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

I would think that conserving our natural resources should be a conservative position: Not to waste food, and not to throw away a lot of the food that we buy.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

Like most Montanans, I get pretty upset when I hear about waste.

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.