John Caudwell Quotes

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I don't think I'm unduly extravagant.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Spend not on hopes.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

I'm quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I'm pretty careful.

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

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

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

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.