Quotes About Frugality

The characteristic signature of poverty is a return to self-sufficiency.

It makes no sense to scrimp all your life so that you can have one hell of a ninetieth birthday bash.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

An aunt, who though not a midwife was expert in that kind of work, helped bring forth the child, cleaning his face with butter and, to save money, powdering his thighs with some flour scraped from a crust of bread in lieu of talcum. "So you see, my boy, you come from humble stock," his Aunt Eudore would say, acquainting him of these petty details, and from an early age Jean didn't dare hope for any kind of good fortune in the future.

Allá en casa la pobreza era tanta que desde muy temprano uno aprendía eso de no gastar en cualquier cosa. Todo costaba dinero. Todo era caro.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

The man who wears no socks can acquire things which bestockinged people can never obtain. By saving on socks, one can afford stamps for letters to philosophers throughout the world and get from them the correct interpretation of obscure words in Sanskrit.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

He who will travel far spares his steed.

The couple had only lived a short while in that village, and they were poor as rats. Leonarda's husband bought damaged cigarettes, personally extracted his own teeth, ate meat and polenta twice a week, drank mate from an earthenware mug, never took his wife to the movies, and when she was ill he took her to a veterinarian.

The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.