Quotes About Frugality

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

Learn how to make your own weaves. It will help you save a lot of money in the long run!

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I travel in luxury? It's a question of good leadership.

We used to manage quite well when she was away sitting for artists, because in those days we lived mostly on bread, vegetables and eggs; but now that we can afford some meat or even chickens, I keep coming to grief. I scrubbed some rather dirty-looking chops with soap which proved very lingering, and I did not take certain things out of a chicken that I ought to have done.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." In business, nothing is ever too small to notice.

This was extraordinary, as Mrs. Fountain was so cheap she washed out her old tinfoil to roll in a ball and use again

No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

She thought only men of property and talent should hold positions in government and once elected they should be allowed to rule with a minimum of popular interference. ..They cast off their old habits of frugality and tried to rise above social position as well - a double sin.

The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.