Quotes About Frugality

Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.

I love things that cost nothing that have great results.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and it's children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave

What all this adds up to is the view that nature is there as a resource to be used by man for his self-interest and profit. But, frugality being a virtue, the resource should be "conserved" as much as possible.

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

Thrift is of great revenue.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

We shop a lot at garage sales, thrift stores.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.

It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.