Quotes About Budgeting

if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Know what's going on with their money

Get clear on how much money you have, what you're bringing in (incomes, investments, royalties, curse jar income from your kids, everything), how much you require each month to live, and where each of your dollars goes. What you focus on you create more of. This will take approximately fifteen minutes in case you're getting ready to reel off into overwhelm/bored-alreadydom.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

The jigsaw puzzle of life is made easier through Financial Literacy.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.

One of the biggest responsibilities the legislature holds every year is allocating our taxpayers' hard-earned money responsibly and efficiently.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.

When you make the decision to prioritize saving and investing your money over spending, you make a trade-off.

I read recently that Americans are buying used cars for an average of $12,000, and I thought, Why don't they take the bus to work and make a feature film instead?

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Penny wise, pound foolish.