Despite his ruthlessness in business, he lived pretty frugally, with tremendous self-control and personal expenditure, but none when pursuing competition and business expansion.
You write about somebody that you know who's very wealthy, who lives very frugally, but has donated a lot to charity, and that's what they wanted to do.
She was penniless and lived frugally, all the publicity she could afford was to personally go from one church to another and ask if the community was interested in hearing her story.
Right - as opposed to the kind of personal finance advice that says - don't buy the Starbucks, live as frugally as possible and pay your creditors as quickly as possible.
If you lose your job, you just have to go for a few months without buying all the junk you usually buy. If you live frugally, you'll save plenty of money.
Um, it's about doing things on the smell of an oily rag, as we would say, doing things, uh, frugally and, and, and simply, but also things that are critical and often people conflate.
Many a year went round before I was a partner in the House; but I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe.