Money & Finance: Saving Money Quotes

Explore thoughtful sayings that highlight the power of saving, steady progress, and mindful spending. These quotes offer gentle reminders to plan ahead, avoid impulse buys, and turn small habits into lasting results. Whether you are building an emergency fund or working toward big goals, find clear motivation to set priorities, track expenses, and celebrate consistent wins. Use these insights to stay focused, make practical choices, and grow confidence in your financial journey.

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Be thrifty, but not covetous"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

Barbara Coloroso

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library"

Frank Black, Musician

"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Never spend your money before you have earned it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all"

Justin Bieber, Musician

Justin Bieber

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending"

Robert Service, Poet

"A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some"

Joe Moore, Celebrity

"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world"

David Cameron, Politician

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"A dollar saved is a quarter earned"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

John Ciardi

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"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, Journalist

"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last"

Evan Esar, Writer

"My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account"

Harold Ford, Politician

"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"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"A penny saved is a penny earned"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Thrift is of great revenue"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Spend not on hopes"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"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, Author

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Those who spend too fast never grow rich"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

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