goddess of thrift

On Financial Advice from . . . 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."

--P. T. Barnum

On Foolproof Investing . . .

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

--Henry David Thoreau

On Getting the Best Rate of Return . . .

"If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending.  Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich."

--Mark Cuban

On Mothers and Generosity . . .

"A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."

--Tenneva Jordan

On the Key to Having the Perfect Day . . .

"You can't have a perfect day without doing something for someone who'll never be able to repay you."

--John Wooden

On a More Accurate Gauge of Wealth . . .

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world."

--Bendixline

On Multiple Reasons to Be Grateful . . .

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity . . . it turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

--Melodie Beattie

On a Gift With No Price . . .

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

--Jean Jacques Rousseau

On Economy and Wisdom . . .

"Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it wisely."

--C. H. Spurgeon

On Gratefulness and Enough . . .

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

--Brother David Steindl-Rast

On What Money Can Buy . . .

     "It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

--George Horace Lorimer

On One Approach to Borrowing Money . . .

     "Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back."

--Author Unknown

On Determining Value . . .

"I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity." --John Wesley

On the Eternal Potential of Money . . .

     "As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure.  It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor.  It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values.  Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth.  Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality."

--A. W. Tozer

On Money and Attitude . . .

      "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life."

--Billy Graham

On the Wrong Kind of Savings . . .

     "We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

--Mignon McLaughlin

Thoughts on Giving and Thrift . . .

     "Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."

--Barbara Bush

     "The best reason for us to practice thrift is to learn to spend less on ourselves so that we have more to meet the needs of others."

--goddess of thrift

On the Cost of Entertainment . . .

     "Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"

--Samuel Goldwyn

On a Good Reason to Work . . . ?

      "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."

--Peter Ustinov

On the Value of Money . . .

     "Money is worth only what someone else is willing to give you for it."

--Niall Ferguson

A Great Endorsement for Thrift . . .

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

--John D. Rockefeller

On the Best Time to Save Money . . .

     "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

On Thrift and Waste . . .

     "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 A. Edison

On the Limits of Money . . .

     "There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

-- Andrew Carnegie

On the Power of Money . . .

     "When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart."

--John Wesley

On Money and Bank Failures . . .

     "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

--Dan Quayle

On handouts . . .

     " When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet."

--Nick Arnette

On Money and Love . . .

     "I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you.  I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love."

--John Lennon/Paul McCartney

On the Cost of Living . . .

     "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living."

--Doug Larson

On Service and Money. . .

     "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

--Douglas Adams