Frederick Soddy Quotes

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

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

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

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

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

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

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 was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

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.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.