Quotes About Budgeting

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

That's the whole secret: earn more, spend less, and automate it.

Don't spend it all in one place!

Brainstorm about all the recurring expenditures that you could eliminate or reduce to cut your expenses. Car insurance, cell-phone bills, lunch money, movie tickets. Think about where you can make changes.

Sólo hay una forma de mantener su riqueza y es sencillamente ésta: gaste menos de lo que ingresa, e invierta la diferencia.

After you give away 10 percent of your income, take another 10 percent to reduce your debts and a third 10 percent to build up capital to invest. You need to live on 70 percent of what you have.

If you mean business, then spend your money on the business, not on expensive meals.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

If you are going to buy, a prudent rule of thumb is not to carry a mortgage greater than two years' income.

Spend less than what you earn and avoid debt no matter what.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.

If you made a list of Hilda's remarks throughout the day, you'd find three bracketed together at the top—'We can't afford it', 'It's a great saving', and 'I don't know where the money's to come from'.

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first.

CONFUSE NOT THY NECESSARY EXPENSES WITH THY DESIRES. EACH OF YOU, TOGETHER WITH YOUR GOOD FAMILIES, HAVE MORE DESIRES THAN YOUR EARNINGS CAN GRATIFY.

That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

los gastos que llamamos obligatorios siempre crecen en proporción a nuestros ingresos si no hacemos algo para evitarlo.

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

he who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

The Second Cure — Control Thy Expenditures

what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes

For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.