#frugal

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ↗

— Elise Boulding

#frugality #happiness #beauty

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. ↗

— Xun Zi

#cannot #concentrate #expenditures #frugal #heaven

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

— Edmund Burke

#frugality #limits #principal #riches

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

— John Tyler

#frugality #industry #only #savings #wealth

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#drive #frugal #hair #i #iq

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#acting #because #buy #car #dad

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it. ↗

— Serena Williams

#frugal #i #you

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' ↗

— Sandra Lee

#anyone #benefit #brothers #caring #frugal

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

— John Ray

#fortune #frugality #hand #industry #left