Adam Smith Quotes

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

I was never a big spender.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

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

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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 tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

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

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

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

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

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.

wise economy … is as far removed from parsimony as from corrupt and corrupting extravagance.

Frugality is a great revenue.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

I don't like spending money.

I saved my money.