George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

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

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.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

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

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

wise economy … is as far removed from parsimony as from corrupt and corrupting extravagance.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.