Quotes About Budgeting

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

That's why it's often helpful to invest in a spreadsheet computer program such as Excel, a software package like Quicken, or any number of Internet sites, that can display and total all your investments.

Seven cures for a lean purse ; 1. Start thy purse to fattening 2. Control thy expenditures 3. Make thy gold multiply 4. Gaurd thy treasures from loss 5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment 6. Insure a future income 7. Increase thy ability to earn

Thrift is of great revenue.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

We shop a lot at garage sales, thrift stores.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

One week, I remember saving more than half my grocery bill that week with coupons. I was beyond thrilled.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

I make sure I keep everything tight, checking on my bills. Going to restaurants, I make sure if I have a coupon, I use it. I try to live like I'm a normal person.

I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Whatever you have, spend less.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.