Evan Esar Quotes

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

Penny saved is a penny got.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

Thrift is of great revenue.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

I don't like spending money.

I saved my money.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.