Gertrude Stein Quotes

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

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 enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my 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.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

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

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

I saved my money.

I'm not interested in money.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

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

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.