“It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.” LittlesStatesWisdomPoliticsPrinciplesPracticeEconomyImpossibleIndustryPropertyWorkersLiberalismPossessingThrift Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno) Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.” ThinkingTwoFeelingsForceQualityEnemyEconomyGoneVirtueShareCenturyExpressionHabitRegardChiefsBarrenVergeClosenessThriftExpression Of Feeling Author:Rebecca Harding Davis
“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.” ImportantUseNightLossPleasureEconomyPureTablesOccasionsEvery NightMeannessThrift Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe
“Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.” ShouldKindEconomyVirtueWasteIncomeAll KindsHouseholdMeannessDegeneratesThriftRepressedFrugality Author:Isabella Beeton
“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.” PeopleIfsLittlesIdeasIndividualNationsEffortEconomyTaughtHabitMassThriftDomestic Life Author:Julia McNair Wright
“There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.” PeopleMeanEnoughAbleInterestPayPracticeEconomyWiseShoesCarefulAbsenceSavingBuyingExpensesCashAvoidingPatchesSaving MoneyThriftFrugalityOld Saying Author:James E. Faust
“Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.” MeanCareEconomyVirtueTalentSkillsSpendingThriftScruples Author:Immanuel Kant
“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.” IfsMenUseWould BeEconomyCreativeGeniusWastePoeticThriftExtravaganceDustbinReally Romantic Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.” WellsPracticeEconomyDisciplineEssentialsAffairBusiness SuccessBusinessmanPersonal LifeThrift Author:J. Paul Getty