Quotes About Budgeting

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

It was extraordinary living in Mumbai, navigating my course, understanding how to manage my finances on my own, mapping out my daily expenses.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they're not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.

There is absolutely no shame in living within your income, however small it may be, but there is shame if creditors are always coming to your door.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

We want to make sure the military gets it right and understands that if they're going to have less money, they're going to have to spend it a lot more smartly.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I didn't want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn't making the same money, I couldn't afford my lifestyle.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.