Thrift
A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
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Thrift Quotations
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
William Feather
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
Rick Perry
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Paul Getty
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill
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Thrift Translations
thrift in German is Sparsamkeit
thrift in Swedish is sparsamhet
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