Top 95 Frugality Quotes & Sayings

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

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.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!

Frugality is a handsome income.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.