Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The more you get, the more you want.
- Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
- Never too much of a good thing.
- Money will do anything.
- Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
- Money makes the mare go.
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
- All is fish that comes to the net.
- Money gets money.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- A silver key can open an iron lock.
- He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
- Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
- Money has no smell.
- Grasp all, lose all.
- A pin a day is a groat a year.
- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Many small make a great.
- A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
- Penny and penny laid up will be many.
- Self comes first.
- Store is no sore.
- He that has no money, needs no purse.
- The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.
- I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.
- You can have no more of a cat but her skin.
- Envy never enriched any man.
- Two bigs will not go in one bag.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Waste not, want not.
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Who will not keep a penny, never shall have many.
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That penny is well spent that saves a groat.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Hic as laudatur qui libram saepe lucratur.
Here is praised the ace who often wins the balance.
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Nihil parcere egestatis est initium.
There is no need to spare a start.
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Quando est manus parca, tunc est plenior arca.
When the hand is spare, then the chest is fuller.
French
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Il faut compter l'argent deux fois et l'or trois fois.
You have to count silver twice and gold three times.
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Grandes maisons se font par petite cuisine.
Big houses are made by small kitchens.
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Écu changé, écu mangé.
Shield changed, shield eaten.
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L'épargne est une grande richesse.
Savings are a great asset.
German
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Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert.
He who does not honor the penny is not worth the thaler.
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Wer das Kleine nicht ehrt, ist des Großen nicht wert.
He who does not honor the small is not worthy of the great.
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Es ist ein guter Gulden, der hundert erspart.
It is a good florin that saves a hundred.
Czech
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Kdo šetří, má za tři.
Those who save money get three.
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Drž groš, aby ti zlatý neutekl.
Hold on to the penny so you don't lose the gold one.
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Dobré jest při kopě klásky sbírati.
It is good to gather the logs when digging.