Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Money often costs too much.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

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.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Thrift is of great revenue.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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