Quotes About Frugality

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

I'm quite famously frugal.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own toolbox with us so that if anything got broken, we could nail it back together and not be charged for it.

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

As long as we live beyond our means we are destined to live beneath our means.

frugality might indicate a certain tendency toward asceticism, which was the complete expression of human foolishness.

There are, I think, two important lessons here. The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. [...] The second lesson is that in good decision making, frugality matters

n good decision making, frugality matters; take a complex problem and reduce it to its simplest elements.

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat.

She thought of Mama making dresses for her and Rose because handmade was cheaper than store bought

I learned from a very early age that it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers. In the process, of course, we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did it was worth something. One thing my mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money: they just didn't spend it.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

The relentless rules of humble arithmetic.

Wi?cej za pomoc? mniej.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.