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. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences. Benjamin Franklin

• work
• resourcefulness
• moderation
• virtue
• happiness
• wealth
• thrift

The way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; i.e. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich. Benjamin Franklin

• wealth
• time management
• thrift

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. Calvin Coolidge

• thrift

Everyone ought to realize that the sole source of national wealth is thrift and industry, and that the sole supply of the public treasury is the toil of the people. Calvin Coolidge

• taxes
• thrift

I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue. Calvin Coolidge

• thrift

It is not through selfishness or wastefulness or arrogance, but through self-denial, conservation, and service, that we shall build up the American spirit. Calvin Coolidge

• service
• thrift

He who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius

• thrift

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. Thomas Jefferson

• debt
• thrift

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. Benjamin Franklin

• thrift

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

• work
• thrift

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy much of value a dollar at a time. Jim Rohn

• wealth
• thrift
• money

I am convinced both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely. Henry David Thoreau

• simplicity
• thrift

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" Seneca

• simplicity
• thrift

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness, and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. Marcus Aurelius

• character
• complaint
• thrift

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One of the dangers of habitual accumulation is using the time available for enjoyment in furious acquisition of more and more. We substitute the joy of ownership for the desire of accumulation. Luxuries become necessities. The tyranny of things overwhelms the acquisitive heart. Fred Smith

• simplicity
• thrift

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Horace

• thrift

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else. Bertrand Russell

• thrift
• money

You can buy a whole lot of happiness with fifty dollars a week when you have the right sort of a woman for your purchasing agent. George Horace Lorimer

• wife
• thrift

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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. George Carlin

• simplicity
• thrift
• food

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. John Ruskin

• business
• sales
• thrift

There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. Benjamin Franklin

• happiness
• service
• thrift