Quotes About Budgeting

At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.

Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.

It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

I pay my credit cards in full every month - as well as all my bills and mortgages.

The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

It seemed like anything more than two kids was resigning yourself to a life of food in bulk and lack of funds.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

Coming up with a ballpark figure on how much you need to pay your expenses, such as your mortgage or rent, insurance, and utilities, is the first place to start when developing your ultimate goal of becoming a multimillionaire.

I tend to tell my readers to go for the cheapest ingredients every time, unless they're unbearable. If so, you only need to have them once and the next week switch up.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit; wouldn't that be a better bet? Evidently not.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.