Quotes About Frugality

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, 'Okay, first rule of thumb, I'm not buying it unless I've got the money to buy it,' so I have no debt.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I make sure I keep everything tight, checking on my bills. Going to restaurants, I make sure if I have a coupon, I use it. I try to live like I'm a normal person.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less expense by way of show was required of him

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Whatever you have, spend less.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

she costing me but little compared with other wives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.