Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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.

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

Whatever you have, spend less.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

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

I live way below my means.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

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

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

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.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.