Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make our country one of the happiest upon earth.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

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

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.

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.

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

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

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.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I have very little debt to anybody. I don't need debt.

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

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.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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

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

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

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.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.