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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit. — John Maynard Keynes

Thrift is a great revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics. — Mason Cooley

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning. — Dave Ramsey

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return — Michael Bassey Johnson

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — G.K. Chesterton

Fashion is such a weird thing. Growing up, I just made do with whatever I had access to - a lot of hand-me-downs and thrift store shopping. — Ruby Rose

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find. — Macklemore

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. — Immanuel Kant

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent. — Hetty Green

thrift shops make you a king for five bucks. — Wendy Lustbader

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. — Oscar Wilde

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything. — Miranda July

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. — Calvin Coolidge

I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible. — Leon Bridges

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause. — Lara Spencer

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that. — Lin Pardey

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. — J. Paul Getty

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way. — Jim Shaw

In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation. — Robert Walser

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. — Jeanette MacDonald

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. — Ezra Miller

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. — J. Paul Getty

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity. — Raj Patel

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes. — William Feather

You make James Bond look like he shops at a thrift store and cuts his own hair. — Melissa McClone

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity. — Raj Patel

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. — J.G. Holland

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue. — Edmund Phelps

What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it. — Marlon James

I dressed in my bedroom, tugging on a pair of jeans, T-shirt, and heavy brown sweater that I'd picked up at a thrift store and loved down to holes. — Devon Monk

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.-S.W. Straus — Charmaine Gerber

Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts. — Rebecca Loncraine

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books. — Michael Dirda

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. — John D. Rockefeller

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas

A penny saved is a penny to squander. — Ambrose Bierce

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo. — ASAP Rocky

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. — Amy Dacyczyn

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning. — William Shakespeare

Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose. — Eric Haney

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift. — Billy Graham

Buyerarchy of Needs (with apologies to Maslow):

use what you have
borrow
swap
thrift
make
buy — Sarah Lazarovic

The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. — William Shakespeare

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores. — Zoe Lister-Jones

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. — Ogden Nash

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays. — Zoe Kravitz

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap. — Shawn Amos

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it. — Barry McGee

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline. — Gurcharan Das

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. — Thomas Carlyle

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. — William Shakespeare

Thrift is of great revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead. — Nell Zink

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime. — Katy Perry

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift. — Theodore T. Munger

Conservatism
hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that. — Theodore Dreiser

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it. — Robert Lembke

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. — Lorde

We're not very good when we're spending other people's money. — Jason Jennings

The real Ashton - the quirky bastard with the smart-ass smile and thrift-store style - could get me to do anything. — Santino Hassell

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. — Agnes Repplier

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. — Philip Sidney