Willful waste makes woeful want.

- Proverb

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

He who does not economize will have to agonize.

- Confucius

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

- Orison Swett Marden

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

- Samuel Johnson

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

- Cicero

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

- John D. Rockefeller

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

- Agesilaus

A fool and his money are soon parted.

- Thomas Tusser

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

- Sir John Templeton

Waste not, want not.

- proverb

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

- Charles Dickens (from David Copperfield)

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

- Abraham Lincoln

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves, the more of a man does it make of him.

- Rudyard Kipling

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

- George Bernard Shaw

Budgeting is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two.

- Arthur Wellington

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

- Ben Franklin

Those who have little, if they are good at managing, must be counted among the rich.

- Socrates

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

- Arnold Bennett

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.

-- Yiddish proverb

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Junk is the stuff we throw away. Stuff is the junk we save.

- Frank Tyger

The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

- Francois Quesnay (French economist)