Abraham Polonsky Quotes

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.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

Frugality is a great revenue.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

I'm against spending money to record.

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

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father's voice: 'Do you really need that?' He was big on saving money and buying as much security as possible. He also encouraged charitable giving. So, I am responsible with currency.

I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

We are going to put "thrift" back in the dictionary.

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.

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

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

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.