Quotes About Budgeting

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

Life is so expensive.

It's frightening, you know, how soon money goes if you're not clever about it.

It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

It's a ridiculously expensive time of year and if you buy something that you've guessed at and it's not right, what a waste of money. Far better to ask. And if you do it with three or four weeks to go, by the time it comes to Christmas you've forgotten about it - so it's a lovely surprise.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Save your money, pay your taxes, it doesn't last forever.

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

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

That's kind of where all my money goes. I'm going to be a very broke girl with a really great wardrobe.

Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.