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I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it Quote
 

“I’m a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I’m about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA’s customers can afford it… I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn’t seem like a good reason to waste it” — Ingvar Kamprad – Founder of IKEA, worth $65.5 Billion

 

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is Quote
 

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

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Frugality includes all the other virtues Quote
 

“Frugality includes all the other virtues” — Cicero

 

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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality Quote
 

“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality” — industry and frugality — Benjamin Franklin

 

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Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits Quote
 

“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits” — Edmund Burke

 

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The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to Quote
 

“The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to” — Dinah Shore

 

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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go Quote
 

“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go — Josh Billings

 

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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man Quote
 

“However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man” — Michelangelo

 

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If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness Quote
 

“If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness” — Oliver Goldsmith

 

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The most substantial people are the most frugal, and make the least show, and live at the least expense Quote
 

“The most substantial people are the most frugal, and make the least show, and live at the least expense” — Francis Moore

 

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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything Quote
 

“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything” — Benjamin Franklin

 

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Confucious Economize Agonize
 
He who will not economize will have to agonize — Confucius

 

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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need Quote
 

“If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need” — Warren Buffett

 

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You understand a whole lot about money when there isn't any. What you learn is that money is hard to come by, and it is important not to waste it Quote
 

“You understand a whole lot about money when there isn’t any. What you learn is that money is hard to come by, and it is important not to waste it — Jack Bogle

 

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Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have Quote
 

“Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

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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 Quote

“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” — Phyllis McGinley

 

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One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money Quote
 

“One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money” — E. W. Howe

 

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Clothes are expensive. Save money and become a nudist. Remember: Fashions may change, but naked is always in style Quote
 

“Clothes are expensive. Save money and become a nudist. Remember: Fashions may change, but naked is always in style” — Jarod Kintz

 

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There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means Quote
 

“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means” — Calvin Coolidge

 

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run Quote
 

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run” — Henry David Thoreau

 

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H.L. Hunt For all practical purposes, I regard a man with $200,000 as well off as a man with 200 million. A millionaire who throws his money around is stupid quote
 

“For all practical purposes, I regard a man with $200,000 as well off as a man with 200 million. A millionaire who throws his money around is stupid — H.L. Hunt

 

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Miley Cyrus People in this industry think, I just gotta keep getting more money, and I'm like, What are you getting more money for? You probably couldn't even spend it all in this lifetime quote
 

“People in this industry think, I just gotta keep getting more money, and I’m like, What are you getting more money for? You probably couldn’t even spend it all in this lifetime” — Miley Cyrus

 

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Jarod Kintz Need Frugality where I can Buy Some
 

I need more frugality. I wonder where I can buy some — Jarod Kintz
 

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Richard Fuller Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little quote
 

“Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little” — Richard Fuller

 

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S.E. Sever The cheapest people are the ones who you can buy with money quote
 

“The cheapest people are the ones who you can buy with money” — S.E. Sever

 

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If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right! Quote
 

“If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!” — William Shatner

 

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Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went Quote
 

“Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went” — Edith Piaf

 

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain Quote
 

“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain” — Jane Bryant Quinn

 

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

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship” — Benjamin Franklin

 

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I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it Quote
 

“I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it” — Jennifer Lawrence

 

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The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste Quote
 

“The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste” — M. W. Harrison

 

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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool Quote
 

“All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool” — Rudyard Kipling

 

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult Quote
 

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult” — Samuel Johnson

 

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Ours was intended to be a plain and frugal government, and I shall regard it to be my duty to recommend to Congress and, to enforce the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public money Quote
 

“Ours was intended to be a plain and frugal government, and I shall regard it to be my duty to recommend to Congress and, as far as the Executive is concerned, to enforce by all the means within my power the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public money which may be compatible with the public interests” — James K. Polk

 

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I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress Quote
 

“I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress” — William McKinley

 

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It is not the custom with me to keep money to look at Quote
 

“It is not the custom with me to keep money to look at” — George Washington

 

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sparing or economical with regard to money or food
 

Frugal – : sparing or economical with regard to money or food. ‘he led a frugal existence‘ synonyms: thrifty, sparing, economical, saving

 

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