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dipping into savings.
When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.[15]
Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending.
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about
It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere
What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons.
committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable. I
Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.
It's not easy to get rid of unwanted things.
[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.
Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts.
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value.
Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Each wrong choice grows your character and strengthens your resilience, readying you for what comes next.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.
Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.
Men are tight-fisted in keeping control of their fortunes, but when it comes to the matter of wasting time, they are positively extravagant in the one area where there is honour in being miserly.
Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.-S.W. Straus
What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.
unduly influenced
I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.
It bothers me when people spoil the market.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Cicero said: "Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue." Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying. "Here's something wonderfully cheap; let's buy it." "Have you any use for it?" "No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time.
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
In a self-betraying condition, how we present ourselves unavoidably becomes of the focus of our concern, and we mistakenly confuse it with how we really are.
There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions ...
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.
A person whom lacks self-discipline leaks energy chasing naked ambitions.
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.
Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.
procrastination,
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
The greatest skill at cards is to know when to discard;
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
A corruption of intentions.
While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.
A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.