Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves

Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves means do the small things right, and they add up to be big successes.

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English Proverb: Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves

This one sounds very British because we have pennies and pounds, right?

The idiom can be used in any English-speaking country because its meaning is easily understood internationally.


Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves means that if you do the small things correctly, they can add up to a big success.


For example, if you create a savings plan to invest a small amount of money every month when you retire, you will have a nest egg saved for your retirement.

As another example, if you consistently study hard daily as a university student, you’ll have little trouble graduating.


This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).  

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 56.  

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.