William Shenstone Quotes

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

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

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

And plenty makes us poor.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make our country one of the happiest upon earth.

The impulse to spend seizes everyone. He who, the whole year through has taken pleasure is saving and piling up his money suddenly becomes extravagant. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides.