Quotes About Frugality

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

So she hadn't been smart with her money, Malory admitted with a windy sigh. She didn't see the point of letting it lie in some bank when it could be turned into something lovely to look at or to wear. Until it was used, money was just paper. Malory tended to use a great deal of paper.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift.

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. 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.

Most Americans could retire on what they waste on car loans.

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Practicality was baked into their bones. They wasted nothing, especially not time.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Solution 2: Don't let your blinky light blink. By keeping it on steady mode, you'll use up the battery faster, but you'll be around to buy more. Don't be cheap and dead.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Buy only what you really need and cannot do without," President Harry Truman once said on TV.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.