Ability Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

— Anonymous

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

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

— will.i.am

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager…

— W. Edwards Deming

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

— Confucius

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

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

— Raj Patel

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

— Anonymous

“Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. — James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones, Lean Thinking (Free Press)”

— Ash Maurya