CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.
But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.
I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.
Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
