Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Spend not on hopes.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

No Nation can encourage or enlarge its Proportion of any private and natural Manufacture, without discouraging the rest; because whether an Allowance be given, either to the Manufacturer, or Transporter, that Allowance serves, and is employed to attract the Workmen from those other Manufactures, which have some likeness to the encouraged Manufacture: So that what is transported of the encouraged Manufacture, beyond nature, only balances the Diminution of the others.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.