thrift quotes

If Enterprise is afoot,Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening toThrift; and if Enterprise is asleep,Wealth decays, whateverThrift may be doing.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  A  Treatise on Money.

The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.

- David Thomson
  Nairn in Darkness and Light.