Frugal Behavior Quotes

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?

I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

I didn't want to go out at night and spend my money in bars and stuff like that, so when I came home at night, I just wanted to entertain myself.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

I'm very weird with my money.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That's my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I'm going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.