CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.
But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.
Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.
These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
