Henry Home Quotes

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

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.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Frugality is a handsome income.

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

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'm careful with money.

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

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

Cheapness is a great virtue.

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.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

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

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.

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

Frugality is a great revenue.

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

I saved my money.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.