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Quotes About Savings

At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.
~ Elizabeth Rogers
Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.
~ Michelle Singletary
Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.
~ Michelle Singletary
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.
~ Peter George Peterson
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Turn down the thermostat. Let the air be a touch cold rather than a touch hot. Others can choose to wear extra clothing if desired. This also improves alertness and saves money.
~ John Durant
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Customers deposit money in a bank for interest; the bank lends that money to other people at a higher rate of interest. This isn't glamorous or interesting, but then banking is not supposed to resemble base jumping or hip-hop.
~ John Lanchester
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
~ John Maynard Keynes
saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth
~ John Maynard Keynes
Since I had left, my mother said, the water bill had gone down by 80 percent.
~ Elif Batuman
After menu meeting came a delicious family meal: fried chicken with honey pecan butter, mashed potatoes, coleslaw. As Adrienne slathered her fried chicken with butter she thought happily of all the money she would save on food this summer.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
the improvement efforts of other companies are misguided since they are aimed at achieving cost savings rather than being totally focused on improving the flow.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.
~ Ashley Greene
Sometimes what matters more in a job is not how much you earn, rather what you can save and do with the little you earn." Ashu Shamy
~ Ashu Shamy
After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.
~ attributed
A smart person never ever buys a house or anything on any financial loan.
~ Author (unknown)
The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to make it easier, secure, and affordable to save, spend, give, and borrow.
~ Dan Schulman
Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
~ Raghuram Rajan
With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
~ Jim Cooper
But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
~ John Shadegg
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
~ Barbara Corcoran