Quotes About Frugality

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.