Quotes About Frugality

To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

I don't believe in paying full price for clothing.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

I am pro live below your means.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

We've cut back dramatically. I mean we never go out to dinner unless we go to somebody's house. We never go to restaurants. That's too extravagant.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

It's weird; my fascination with tech was kind of combined with the fact that my parents would never pay for anything. It got me more involved because I would have to find clever ways to get things for free.

When you're one of ten, you learn quickly you're not entitled to anything but the necessities, hand-me-downs, and cars with 157,000 miles on them and the possibility of exploding gas tanks.

The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich.

Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book.

The seclusion of Spinoza's life was necessitated by intense labour and intellectual discipline, and his frugality expressed independence of spirit rather than meanness or self-concern. The strength of Spinoza's social feelings, and his Aristotelian emphasis on friendship as a necessary human good, are abundantly shown in the Ethics.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

Following his father's example, he recorded every expense in his little book

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition of yourself.

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition

That clan always had deep pockets and shorrrt arrrms.

I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.