#frugality

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. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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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. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Frugality is for the vulgar. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#vulgar

There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #frugality #society #war #art

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#dignity

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

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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And while over-indulgence destroys the virtues, frugality destroys the stronghold of vice. ↗

— St. Neilos

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