Quotes about Frugality
We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.
— Ernest Hemingway
One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.
— Ronald Reagan
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
— John Adams
Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
— Edmund Burke
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
— Anonymous
I learned from a very early age that it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers. In the process, of course, we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did it was worth something. One thing my mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money: they just didn't spend it.
— Sam Walton
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
— WP Kinsella
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you
— Winston Churchill
John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
— John Tyler
Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.
— Brigham Young