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