Thrift Quotes

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

Economy is a great revenue.[Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.