Saving Quotes

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

It is better to be a lender than a spender.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house,you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

Save when you can and not when you have to.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.