#Thrift Quotes

“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.”

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.”

“Thrift is of great revenue.”

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”

“Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?”

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

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

“Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.”