Mithila Palkar Quotes

I live way below my means.

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

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

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

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

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.

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'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

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

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

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.

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

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.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

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

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

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