Frugality Quotes

64 quotes by 44 authors

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent… — Jeff Bezos
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so… — Albert Camus
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,… — Laozi
Frugality includes all the other virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. — John Ray
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry… — Benjamin Franklin
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and… — George Mason
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and… — Horace Mann
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. — Frederic Bastiat
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. — Agesilaus II
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to… — Samuel Adams
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be… — Oliver Goldsmith
Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly onâ€”and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you donâ€™t love. — Ramit Sethi
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to… — Benjamin Franklin
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality. — Benjamin Franklin
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of… — William Penn

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