Stories about hard work and thrift

The story of diligence and thrift are:

1, Premier Hard and Simple Premier Zhou was never special in his life, and has maintained the fine tradition of hard and simple, he worked a lot of ambulance work, the sleeves of his clothes are broken, he patched a large round patch at the elbow. In order to protect the sleeves, he made a sleeve cover to wear. His shirt is always patched and patched, and finally patched even their own can not see its original face.

2, Queen Elizabeth II often said a British proverb is "thrifty pennies, pounds from", every day late at night she personally extinguish the Buckingham Palace hall and corridor lights, she insisted that the royal toothpaste should be squeezed to a little bit left.

3, once, the United States, a big entrepreneur John to a New York inn to stay, asked for a cheapest room. The manager of the hotel recognized Rockefeller, asked him: "Why do you choose such a cheap room? Your son always chooses the most expensive room when he comes here." "That's right," said Rockefeller, "My son's father is a millionaire, and mine is not."

4, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Fengyang, is still circulating the song of four dishes and one soup: "The emperor's treat, four dishes and one soup, turnip and leek, really sweet aroma; small onion and tofu, meaningful, clean, corrupt officials panic. "Zhu Yuanzhang and the officials of the law: no matter who set up banquets in the future, only four dishes and a soup, who violates, severely punished.