Frugality Quotes

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes.

Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

It takes Rs. 10 per kms in Ahmedabad by auto- rickshaw, but it took us only Rs. 7 per kms to reach Mars.

If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.