ECONOMY

Related Subjects: Bargain, Capitalism, Care, Dollar, Money, Prudence, Thrift, Waste

1. A man's ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts, and if he think to wax rich, but to the third part.—BACON
   

2. Economy before competence is meanness after it; therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dis­pense with it.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. Mere parsimony is not economy. . . . Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.—BURKE, Letter to a Noble Lord
   

4. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.—BURKE, Letter to a Noble Lord
   

5. To make three guineas do the work of five.—BURNS
   

6. Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.—CICERO

7. We tend to think of economic welfare in terms of more income, higher prices, more dollars, rather than in terms of more production and more consumption. Economic policies are all too often selected and judged by their ability to create dollars, rather than to create goods.—MORDECAI EZEKIEL, $2500 a Year
   

8. Our present economic system inherited from the past, tends to obscure the simple physical aspects of the problem. By centering attention on making money, it distracts us from the primary importance of making more goods and creating more services.—MORDECAI EZEKIEL, $2500 a Year
   

9. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.—FRANKLIN
   

10. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pockets begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.—FRANKLIN
    

11. Each economic system develops its own system of thought, law, ethics, and politics. We can't think like medieval men today, even though we try to.—J. B. S. HALDANE, I Believe
    

12. They are a Tower of Babel of different Economic languages.—WILLIAM HARD
    

13. Without economy none can be rich and with it few will be poor.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
    

14. Economists have not yet earned the right to be listened to attentively.—J. M. KEYNES

15. A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them; it is contingencies and being prepared for them.—HANNAH MORE
    

16. Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.—HANNAH MORE
    

17. He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he that has a great deal left him does to his father's care.—WILLIAM PENN
    

18. Economy, which in things inanimate is but money-making, when exercised over men becomes policy.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

19. Nothing is cheap that is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.—PLUTARCH
    

20. Spend not, where you may save; spare not, where you must spend.—Proverb
    

21. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice before thou partest with it.—Proverb
    

22. He that regards not a penny will lavish a pound.—Proverb
    

23. He that has but four and spends five, has no need of a purse.—Proverb
    

24. Ask thy purse what thou shouldest buy.—Proverb
    

25. There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

26. Economy is in itself a source of great revenue.—SENECA
    

27. The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt, who is to leave us something at last.—W. SHENSTONE
    

28. Every single economic fact is always related to some other equally important fact—and the practical man's job is to measure the relationship between the two.—R. D. SKINNER, Seven Kinds of Inflation