Stewardship
90 quotes: 15 by Keith Craft, 75 from other voices.
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- Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
- Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
- Live within your income. Always have something saved at the end of the year. Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong.
- Live within your income and save so that you can invest.
- Living within your income eliminates worry and a great many other things.
- Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!
- Men know not how great a revenue frugality is.
- Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
- Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
- Money is a great servant but a bad master.
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
- Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do.
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend
- Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Never waste anything, but, above all, never waste time.
- No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
- Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
- Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
- People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
- Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
- The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
- The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
- The most precious thing that we all have with us is time.
- The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
- The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
- The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
- The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
- There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
- There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
- There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous, since without it we can do nothing in this world. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst.
- Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
- Those who think they have only a very small talent, are often most tempted not to trade with it for their Lord.
- Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.
- Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go.