James Anderson Quotes

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I don't shop as much as I find.

Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person; I don't spend a lot of money.

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.

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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

I don't think I'm unduly extravagant.

Even when I got ₹500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

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

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.