Quotes About Frugality

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Nous ne commençons à prouver quelque chose qu'en persévérant jusque dans un âge où déjà nous sommes contraints à l'économie.

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

She knew how to get by on next to nothing.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

My mom has passed down that you can be chic and look beautiful, and you don't have to break the bank. I grew up like that. She also taught me I don't have to stress all the time. She's always been a go-with-the-flow type of woman; that's how she raised us, and I find that's how I'm raising my little girls now.

My family taught me about saving and how to stretch to make ends meet.

My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.

We love a good deal. Outlets, yeah, we do the outlets all the time.

Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

Grandmother had had to be frugal all her life, and so she had a weakness for extravagance. She watched the basin and the barrels and every crevice in the granite fill with water and overflow. She looked at the mattresses out being aired and the dishes that were washing themselves. She sighed contentedly, and, absorbed in thought, she filled a coffee cup with precious drinking water and poured it over a daisy.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn