Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.
Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.
When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
I'm careful with money.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
