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

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16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 積少成多 /积少成多 (jīshǎochéngduō) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Chinese Mandarin: 聚沙成塔 (jùshāchéngtǎ) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Chinese Mandarin: 集腋成裘 (jíyèchéngqiú) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Finnish: senteissä tuhannen alku — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Finnish: pennissä satain alku, markassa tuhanten — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• French: les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• German: wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Hungarian: sok kicsi sokra megy — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Irish: is é cosaint na pingine a chruachas na puint — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Japanese: 一銭を笑う者は一銭に泣く (issen o warau mono wa issen ni naku) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Korean: 푼돈을 아끼면 큰돈은 저절로 모인다 (pundoneul akkimyeon keundoneun jeojeollo moinda) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Malay: sedikit-sedikit, lama-lama jadi bukit — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Polish: grosz do grosza, a będzie kokosza — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Russian: копе́йка рубль бережёт, а рубль го́лову стережёт (kopéjka rublʹ berežót, a rublʹ gólovu sterežót) — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Slovene: zrno na zrno pogača, kámen na kámen palača — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things
• Spanish: un grano no hace granero, pero ayuda al compañero — if you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things