Echoes

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.

Lost Time is never found again.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending, just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The food which a temperate man leaves upon his plate is more beneficial than that which a glutton eats.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

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

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

One should not eat unless one is hungry, nor drink unless one is thirsty.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.