Quotes About Frugality

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

I'm not very good with spending money.

Sleeping in my office isn't very comfortable, but it's my choice to save for my daughter's college instead of spending money on a D.C. apartment.

I don't like spending money.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.

I don't like to spend money. Every time I spend it, I feel as if I'm being raped.

En nuestros tiempos sólo hemos visto hacer grandes cosas a los hombres considerados tacaños; los demás siempre han fracasado.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Want to know the Duggar family motto? 'Buy used, and save the difference.'

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.

If I live through this, she thought, I'm going to save a fortune on utilities.