Quotes About Savings

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

I woke up this morning with some music in my head. Songs that sing of being alive and find the way to spend my time without spending a dime. So I gather the rest of my change, I put it in a jar to save up for all of the things that I know I can't buy with just my heart.

In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian Baptist Church's fifteen thousand members to withdraw their funds from white-woned banks and transfer them to either the black-owned Carver Federal Savings in Harlem or the black-owned Tri-State Bank in Memphis, Tennessee (108).

When asked how long they thought the Empire State job would take to build, Paul Starrett said that they could tear down the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and finish the new building in eighteen months. He also said that their fee for all this would be insignificant compared with the amount of money the corporation would save by having the construction completed in such a short time.

Fantasies are like extra cash. They need to be banked for later use.

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Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

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.

Is everybody supposed to run current account surpluses? If so, with whom—Martians? And if everybody does indeed try to run a savings surplus, what else can be the outcome but a permanent global depression?

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

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

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.