Cheap 101

Dave Ramsey
“Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.”

Elise Boulding
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.”

TT Munger
“The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought and so broadens the mind.”

Edmond Mbiaka
“Imagine how much you could have saved if you didn’t spend a lot of your money on those unnecessary things with the intention of getting attention or feeling “important” in the eyes of others.”

Suze Orman
“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

Brigham Young
“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”

P.T. Barnum
“A penny here and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way, the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.”

Warren Buffet
“Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.”

Benjamin Franklin
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”

James W. Frick
“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”

John C. Maxwell
“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

George Choy
To Become Rich — You Must Value Saving More than Spending.

Thomas Jefferson
“Never spend your money before you have it.”

Robert Kiyosaki
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

Will Rogers
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.”

Elizabeth Warren
“Balancing your money is the key to having enough.”

John Mc Donough
“Deprive yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality.”

Nathan W. Morris
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.

Agesilaus
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Voltaire
“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”