Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

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

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

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.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I live way below my means.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

We are going to put "thrift" back in the dictionary.

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.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

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

I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

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

My family taught me about saving and how to stretch to make ends meet.