George Eliot Quotes

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

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

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

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

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

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

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

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

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.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

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

I saved my money.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.