Quotes About Frugality

There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon

Everything in the Shaker community was built for service. Nothing was put there without a purpose, and there was no wasted frills. Nothing was built or done just because it was pleasing to the eye.

She's nowt spesh, didn't even have any ornaments. All her walls were painted white, no wallpaper, just black and white photos in black frames, big things they were. There was no carpet on the floor, bare floorboards and she could only afford to have one flower in a vase. Who buys just one flower Lil? Bit of a cheapskate if you ask me. All top show and no knickers, I reckon.

Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class when he was alone, with the cheapest wine, and good care of his clothes, and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence.

Reducir las necesidades al mínimo, para no depender en nada de los demás.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I'm that woman who would reuse all the plastic bottles that come home, wear the same clothes time and again, because why not?

The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!

Estou falando sério:o segredo está em proporcionar um enterro digno às pessoas de poucos recursos, inclusive com alguma elegância (nisso os franceses, acredite, são campeões), um funeral de burgueses para a pequena burguesia e um funeral de pequenos-burgueses para o proletariado, esse é o segredo de tudo, não só das empresas funerárias, mas da vida em geral!

Rockefeller believed that nonprofit institutions should be even more circumspect with money than business organizations:

Rockefeller never lost his ingrained sense of thrift.