If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.
Akira Toriyama
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
Alton Brown
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
Amory Lovins
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson
I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.
Antoni Porowski
I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.
Ashley Greene
I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
Carol Vorderman
I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
Chance The Rapper
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Charlie Byrd
Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.
Chris Sullivan
It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.
Chuck Feeney
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
Clarence Thomas
Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.
Delroy Lindo
Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.
Dita Von Teese
I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
DJ Qualls
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
Donald Berwick
I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
Dorothea Dix
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
I'm quite famously frugal.
Frugality is for the vulgar.
My parents were both very frugal, and I think they're responsible for my attitude of always looking for good value, especially in my work. In a way, sports betting is like a big game of 'The Price Is Right:' just like I'd pay $3 for a Coke Zero but not $4, I'd lay three points on the Bears-Packers point spread but not four.
A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.
While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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?
Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.
I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.
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.
That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'
I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.
I was always the frugal kid growing up because I was saving for college. Or I was always that kid that was like, 'I'm going to save my babysitting money so I can eat an expensive dinner when I go to Europe.'
