Age Quote by David Frum

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making…

— Marvin J. Ashton

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending…

— Abraham Lincoln

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

— Immanuel Kant

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those…

— Peter George Peterson

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly…

— Owen D. Young

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental…

— Orison Swett Marden

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a…

— Neville Chamberlain

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and…

— J. D. Vance

The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising…

— Oscar Wilde