Frugality Quotations

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

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

Frugality is a handsome income.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; the relief of real distress, whether arising from sickness or other causes; and the prevention.

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.