Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“They just want to know what we stand for; our spending choices is one way that we articulate this.” — Ron Lieber Copy Share Image
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things… — Ramit Sethi Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The salesman told Anna that it was pointless to try to rip off his customers, because of everything a Sichuanese person must… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Even a person with ninety-nine rooms sleeps in only one room. And even in that room, the maximum space he requires is… — Jang Eun-Jin Copy Share Image
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not… — George Washington Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image