Saving Quotes

• If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.4

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• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

  William Shatner

  Money, Want, Ifs

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.197, Macmillan

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• The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Money, Acceptance, Self

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• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Coal, Economy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

  P. T. Barnum

  Rainy Day, Dollars, Goes On

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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  You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Forever, Gains

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.30, Penguin

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• Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

  Brian Tracy

  Independence, Three, Financial

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• The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

  Henry Taylor

  Funny, Inspiring, Art

  Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12

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

  Sidney Carroll

  Shopping, Needs, Frugal

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

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• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

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• The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Honest, Humanitarian

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.177, Grove Press

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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  Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

  Joe Biden

  Money, Powerful, Wealth

  "'This guy's shame has no limits': Biden denounces Trump and rallies for Clinton" by Sabrina Siddiqui, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2016.

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• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Happiness, Leadership, Money

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

  Alan Greenspan

  Country, Philosophy, Political

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• It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

  Jill Stein

  Energy, Transition, Cost

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Age, Abandon

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• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  William Blake

  Pain, Wonderful, Hindsight

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• Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!

  Keanu Reeves

  Heart, Grace, Soul

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  World, Unions, Economy

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• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Exercise, Self

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