Quotes About Savings

it is very difficult for a married couple to accumulate wealth if one is a spendthrift. A household divided in its financial orientation is unlikely to accumulate significant wealth.

Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

Ask my family about my obsession for discounts and they will tell you.

Pennies saved one and two at a time

The little difference between what we earn and what we spend is capital.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

I'd rather spend my money on books than unnecessary electricity...

That's what makes poor people poor...They're looking to find treasures instead of working and saving every day.

stipulation that the couple promise—indeed sign a pledge—to fund a savings account to pay for the boy's college education. There was another

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Stay away from the mentality of using the credit card compulsorily and invest on yourself. Wealth has not created mankind but mankind has created wealth. Live your life in the simplest manner possible.

We do not follow the common practice of talking one-on-one with large institutional investors or analysts, treating them instead as we do all other shareholders. There is no one more important to us than the shareholder of limited means who trusts us with a substantial portion of his or her savings. As I run the company day-to-day — and as I write this letter — that is the shareholder whose image is in my mind.

Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Nothing has any value but money. Money. But in point of fact money has no value; the greatest possible enjoyment has to be squeezed out of it moment by moment. Why save oneself up for tomorrow? Who knows where the dollar will stand, who knows whether we shall be still alive tomorrow?

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren't libertarians if we tolerate it.

When you adopt a frugal lifestyle, start by re-examining your daily routines to make sure that you don't spend any more money than is necessary to get the job done—whatever that job may be.

Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.