It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily… — Joyce Thompson Copy Share Image
“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the… — Elizabeth Willard Thames Copy Share Image
Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the… — Hannah Kearney Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last… — Lorde Copy Share Image
The whole problem with the world today: private property. If no one owned anything, it would be a lot better. There's even… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these… — William H. Whyte Jr Copy Share Image
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny… — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will… — John Wesley Snyder Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
