(Famous Quotes)
It is as easy as being frugal as being extravagant, but it is difficult to move from extravagance to frugality
Careful budgeting is a constant gain
Looking at the past sages The success of a country and a family is due to diligence and frugality, and failure is due to extravagance. (Li Shangyin)
Quietness is used to cultivate one's character, and frugality is used to cultivate virtue. (Zhuge Liang)
Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work.
The extravagant are in ruins, the thrifty are safe, one bad thing and one good thing are in front of them. Bai Juyi
Whoever scrimps on food and clothing on weekdays will easily get through difficulties when he is poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when he is rich will die of hunger and cold when he is poor.
Sadie
Once society has a technical need, this need will push science forward more than ten universities.
Engels
Poverty, a clean and simple life, is where we revolutionaries can overcome many difficulties! Fang Zhimin
Don’t worry about poverty and lowliness, and don’t dwell on wealth. Tao Yuanming
Society is like a ship, and everyone must be prepared to steer the ship. Ibsen
Even though the activities in the world have many shortcomings, they are still beautiful. Rodin
(Celebrity Examples)
Zhou Enlai:
During his tenure as Prime Minister, one day, his wife felt that his towel was rotten, so she It's lost. But Zhou Enlai tried every means to get it back, because he believed that when the country is developing, not to waste should start from small things.
Chairman Mao took the lead in not eating meat when he was in trouble, Premier Zhou wore patchwork pajamas, Mr. Zhu wore patchwork shoes, and Deng Xiaoping drank mung bean porridge. To be honest, their frugality alone can't save a few copper coins. No matter how poor the country is, the leaders still have enough money for clothing and food. The frugality of great men is to demonstrate a spirit, advocate a style, and lead a trend. The power of role models is endless. Lao Tzu praised frugality as one of the three treasures in the world and proposed that "frugality can lead to broadness." "What's good at the top will be bad at the bottom." If leaders spend extravagantly and extravagantly, extravagance will inevitably prevail in society. Deng Xiaoping once warned sternly: "Today's problems are so complex that it is impossible to rely only on a few regulations, a few decrees, and a few methods." "Saving requires enthusiasm. Without local enthusiasm, it is impossible to save. , there will be waste." His criticism goes to the point. Saving cannot rely on commandism or formalism, but must actively develop good habits of saving from top to bottom.
Deng Xiaoping’s strict frugality accompanied his life of ups and downs, and there are many touching details that are endlessly charming and can be recalled again and again. "One porridge and one meal should be remembered as hard-earned; half a thread and half a thread should be remembered that material resources are difficult." Nowadays, some people who got rich first have regarded frugality as stingy and waste as promotion of consumption. But these people have completely forgotten our resource-poor national situation. my country's per capita possession of important resources such as arable land, fresh water, forests, oil and natural gas is only 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10 and 1/22 of the world average respectively. Of the more than 600 cities across the country, more than 400 have insufficient water supplies. "Heaven has a time to nurture things, and the earth has limited wealth, but human desires are endless. If time is limited to serve endless desires, and if the legal system does not exist during it, things will be destroyed and wealth will be exhausted." This is the resource of Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Crisis view. Practicing strict frugality is the most important choice to deal with resource shortages. Today, we, who are deeply aware of the pain of water shortage, electricity shortage, coal shortage, and oil shortage, should have a greater sense of urgency to be frugal than Bai Juyi, and deeply feel the everlasting charm of the details of leaders' strict frugality.
Su Shi, one of the Eight Great Scholars of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was awarded Jinshi at the age of 21 and served as an official for 40 years. During his tenure as an official, he always paid attention to frugality and often lived a careful life. In 1080 AD, Su Shi was demoted and demoted and came to Huangzhou. As his salary was reduced a lot, he was too poor to survive. Later, with the help of friends, he got a piece of land and started farming by himself. In order not to spend a penny indiscriminately, he also implemented a planned expenditure: first calculate all the money, and then divide it into 12 equal portions, using one portion every month; each portion was evenly divided into 30 small portions, and only one small portion was used every day. After all the money is divided, it is hung on the beams in portions, and one bag is taken out every morning to be used as living expenses for the whole day. After getting a small amount of money, he has to weigh it carefully and never buy anything that he can afford. He is only allowed to have leftovers and is not allowed to overspend. Su Shi kept the money he saved in a bamboo tube to prepare for unexpected needs.