Wise Spending Quotes

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

wise economy … is as far removed from parsimony as from corrupt and corrupting extravagance.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

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

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.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

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

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.