Frugality Quotes

• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.

  Ramit Sethi

  Cutting, Cost, Enough

  Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.97, Workman Publishing

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• ... frugality makes a poor man rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Perseverance, Yield, Perserverance

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Two, Way

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• Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Beautiful, Cutting, Simple

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• I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Fellow Man, Frugal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

  Amy Dacyczyn

  Creativity, Deprivation

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

  Andrew Johnson

  Economy, Source, Duty

  First State of the Union Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. December 04, 1865.

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• Frugality includes all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Money, Wealth, Virtue

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• Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

  Philip Wylie

  Blessing, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Pay, Dear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.295, Library of America

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• Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Waste, Money Wasted, Industry

  Benjamin Franklin (1834). “The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.160

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• It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

  Lucretius

  Greatest Wealth, Soul, Mind

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• The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Riches

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• I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Organization

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13

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• Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

  John Tyler

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Saving

  First annual message to Congress, June 01, 1841.

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• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Freedom, Mean

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• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Would Be, Rich Poor, Frugal

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.20

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• Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

  Laozi

  Deep Love, Leader, World

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• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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• A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.

  Sidney Carroll

  Shopping, Needs, Saving

  "Fictional character: Jesse Buford". "A Big Hand for the Little Lady", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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