Quotes About Frugality

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save.

but the habits of frugality ingrained during years of perpetual worry about money, and daily, hourly, weighing of cost and benefit, meant she could never take an auto, not on her birthday, not ever.

It is not of the slightest use to economise ; every farthing improperly saved does a shilling's worth of damage ; and that is getting a bargain the wrong way.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

A farm is like a man—however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

Thrift is of great revenue.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

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.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

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.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Live like a student while you are in school, so you don't have to live like a student after you graduate.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear."76

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.