Quotes About Frugality

It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

sustainably produced. A less obvious suggestion includes creating a "price book." Kept by thrifty housewives for decades and made famous by Amy Dacyczyn, author of The Tightwad Gazette,10 a price book enables you to recognize quickly the cheapest

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

The key is remembering that anything you buy and don't use, anything you throw away, anything you consume and don't enjoy is money down the drain, wasting your life energy and wasting the finite resources of the planet. Any waste of your life energy means more hours lost to the rat race, making a dying. Frugality is the user-friendly and earth-friendly lifestyle.

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

training away the money-wasting habits

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

He's always been known to be entrepenurious.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.

Vous devenez si économe que vous finirez par trouver le moyen de vous nourrir en humant l'air de la cuisine.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Moved by deep love, a man is courageous. And with frugality, a man becomes generous. And he who does not desire to be ahead of the world becomes the leader of the world.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

He who does not economize will have to agonize.