Sentence examples for work frugality from inspiring English sources

Smiley tries to render Atanasoff's tale as a fable about the American heartland: the hard work, frugality and pragmatism of middle Americans versus the cleverness and greed of the East Coast and Old World elites.

He says he did it the old-fashioned way: by hard work, frugality, prudent investing, and patience.

"It was almost like the American Dream had turned into a quest for fame and fortune," reflects Greenfield in voiceover, "and we had left behind the values of hard work, frugality, and discretion that had defined our parents' generation".

Inflation makes a fool's game of hard work and frugality.

Throughout his rise to wealth, Mr. Wang has preached hard work and frugality.

Weber suggested that the Protestant religious concept of achieving God-given grace through hard work and frugality was one of the crucibles of capitalist economic systems.

When the Scottish mystic died, he left an estate worth the equivalent of more than $4 million today, thanks to hard work and frugality.

In the ethic encouraged by the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, traditional disdain for acquisitive effort was diminished, while hard work and frugality were given a stronger religious sanction.

In 1965 movables owned by either spouse before marriage were excluded from the community fund, which now, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, consists only of the fruits of the spouses' work or frugality during marriage.

What is remarkable is how well the Amish customs of hard work and frugality serve the believers as they increasingly integrate into a capitalistic society.

When I was young, the "Protestant Ethic" of hard work, perseverance, frugality, fiscal responsibility and sobriety were the rule.