Saving Habits Quotes

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I'm going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

When I was a kid, I was big into saving up my money.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Even when I got ₹500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.

I'm an economic human without any likes or dislikes!

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

Sometimes I feel like I could have been a Depression-era person, just because of my need to make sure that I'm conservative in how I think about money.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

I do save a lot. I'm a reality TV star but at the end of the day I know you have to save. With my career it can sometimes be over in an instant and that's why I've always saved.