A famous motto
Luxury is frugal, but fierceness is in sight. (Bai Juyi)
Whoever scrimps and saves on weekdays will easily tide over the difficulties when he is poor; People who are extravagant in abundance will die of hunger and cold in poverty. (Sadie)
Thrift is an inexhaustible feast in your life (Edison)
Being poor and white and living a simple life is exactly where we revolutionaries can overcome many difficulties! (Fang Zhimin)
Don't worry about poverty, don't seek wealth. (Tao Yuanming)
Money is such a thing as long as it can solve a person's life. If it is too much, it will become a scourge to curb human talent.
Being an official, being honest and clean is the first difficulty. [Jin] Yuan Haowen's Notes on Yuan Zhenshan: Capable officials can often see it, but it is very difficult to be honest and clean.
Honest, the people's table also; Greedy people are thieves of the people. [Song] Bao Zheng's "Don't take bribes" Note: Honest officials are examples for the people; Corrupt officials are thieves of the people.
If civil servants don't love money, Chen Wu will die and the world will be peaceful. [Song] Yue Fei's Note: Only when civil servants are honest and clean, and military commanders devote themselves to serving the country can the country be peaceful.
There is nothing like greed in the world, and a few people have missed their lives here. [Song] Zhu Note: There is nothing more sinister than greed in the world, and many people have missed their lives because of it.
Although you can't go, you can save money. [Warring States] Xunzi's correction of names Note: Although people's desires cannot be eliminated, their pursuit can be controlled.
Looking at the countries and families of former sages, they became thrifty and extravagant. [Tang] Li Shangyin's "Ode to the Epic" Note: Looking at the experience and lessons of the sages in the past dynasties, success is due to diligence and thrift, and failure is due to extravagance.
Worry and fatigue can rejuvenate the country, and leisure can die. [Song] Ouyang Xiu's "Preface to the Biography of Lingguan in the Five Dynasties" Note: Worrying about fatigue can rejuvenate the country; Blindly coveting comfort and pleasure will ruin yourself.
Things will rot first, and then insects will live; People must doubt first, and then enter it. [Song] Su Shi commented on Fan Zenglun: Things must rot first, and moths can live. People should be suspicious before they can listen to rumors.
It's easy to be frugal and difficult to be frugal.
Show off if you have money, and starve if you have no money.
To have enough food and clothing, frugality is the most important thing.
Hold hands, year after year.
Diligence can make up for poverty, and province can make up for poverty.
Look before you leap, eat and wear.
Diligent and frugal Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong asked others to do it first. He lived a simple life, slept in a hard bed and wore coarse clothes. A nightgown was mended 73 times and worn for 20 years. During the difficult economic times, he took the initiative to reduce his salary and living standard, and did not eat fish or fruit. In the 1960s, once after a meeting before noon, he left everyone for lunch. At the dinner table, he cooked cabbage with a big bowl of meatballs and a few small dishes of pickles, and the staple food was sesame cake. Great men set an example of thrift for China people.
Elizabethan
An English proverb often used by Queen Elizabeth II is "Save the penny and the pound will come". Every night, she will personally put out the lights in the halls and corridors of Buckingham Palace, and she insists that all toothpaste used by the royal family should be squeezed. Japan's Toyota Company, which claims that "everything will have a result, and finally there will be a Toyota car", starts from bit by bit in cost management. Work gloves are broken and need to be replaced one by one. If office paper is used in the front, it needs to be used in the back. Put a brick in the water tank of the toilet to save water. One is the respect of the country, and the other is a world-famous multinational company. It is amazing that the awareness of saving is so strong.
Lei Feng's Saving Story
One Sunday, Uncle Lei Feng's comrade-in-arms Wang Dali washed all the soldiers' socks and clothes. Uncle Lei Feng found his old socks missing when he was hanging clothes, so he looked everywhere. At this moment, Wang Dali said, "Lei Feng, you have so much savings, but you are reluctant to buy a pair of socks. Look, isn't it uncomfortable to wear these socks on your feet? " Uncle Lei Feng said, "As long as it doesn't delay my work!" Wang Dali added, "Don't you think it's ugly?" "We soldiers don't wear socks for others to see." These words have embodied Uncle Lei Feng's frugal spirit. He only gets 6 yuan's bonus every month, but he keeps it in the bank. Year after year, Lei Feng donated all the money he saved to the people in the disaster area, but he was reluctant to buy new socks.