"Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence." - Max Amsterdam

"If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days." - Annie Dillard

"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu

"'Your money, or your life.' We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does." - Mignon McLaughlin

"Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character." - S.W. Straus

"Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous." - Lord Rosebery

"The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice." - M.W. Harrison

"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character." - Calvin Coolidge

"We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it." - Donald Horban

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." - Edwin Way Teale

"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills." - Clifford Odets

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

"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." - D.L. Moody