39 Quotes About Being Frugal

There are many ways to save your money and put it to go use elsewhere. These quotes about being frugal encourage this type of behavior no matter your social or economic situation. Everyone benefits with frugality.

“A bargain ain’t a bargain unless it’s something you need.”

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

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

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy”

“Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste.”

“Being frugal doesn’t mean slashing your spending or depriving yourself of things that you enjoy. It means knowing the value of a dollar and making every effort to spend it wisely.”

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

“But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.”

“By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.”

“Frugality, I’ve learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.”

“Happiness is making the most of what you have.”

“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.”

“He who does not economize will have to agonize.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.”

“If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.”

“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.”

“Less is more.”

“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”

“Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.”

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”

“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.”

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

“People don’t realize how easy they have it these days. Most kids have never known what it’s like to go without anything.”

“The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn. People earning a million dollars a year can have no money, and people earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It’s not what you earn, it’s what you spend.””

“The art is not making money, but in keeping it.”

“The best things in life aren’t things.”

“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”

“There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.”

“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties.”

“These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.”

“Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.”

“We’re not very good when we’re spending other people’s money.”

“With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge.”

“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.”

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

“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.”

There are many ways to be frugal and save money. These easy to follow ways you can start doing today can end up saving your thousands in the long term.