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Quotes About Budgeting

what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
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.
~ George S. Clason
ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL SEGUNDO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PRESUPUESTA TUS GASTOS PARA QUE TENGAS LAS MONEDAS CON LAS CUALES PAGAR POR TODO LO QUE NECESITAS, PARA PAGAR LO QUE DISFRUTAS Y PARA GRATIFICAR LOS DESEOS QUE VALEN LA PENA, SIN GASTAR MÁS DE NUEVE DÉCIMAS PARTES DE LO QUE GANAS».
~ George S. Clason
That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter
~ George S. Clason
This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.
~ George S. Clason
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.
~ George S. Clason
Viva de acordo com sua renda e não se torne mesquinho e com medo de gastar. A vida é boa e rica em coisas que valem a pena e em coisas que se possa desfrutar.
~ George Samuel Clason
All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.
~ Mark Skousen
Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
~ Jean Chatzky
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
~ Caroline Knapp
I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.
~ A'Lelia Bundles
For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.
~ Tate Reeves
The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.
~ Ben Stein
The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.
~ Ronald Reagan
I made very good money and spent all of it every week. I lived paycheck to paycheck...
~ Augusten Burroughs
They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.
~ Stanley Karnow
I am getting desperate with the inability of the men there to understand what can be spent on military weapons and what must be spent to wage the peace.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
~ English proverb
annual increases in your rent is 4 percent per year.
~ Eric Tyson
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then can be no great matter but remember what Poor Richard says "Many a little makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'd be happy to have run rehearsals for a month, but it gets expensive to do that.
~ John de Lancie