Quotes About Budgeting

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

When you have a kid, money matters.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

Save for your goals. Take note of what's coming your way - vacations, the holidays, what ever is going to cost you money - and start saving ahead of time so that you have a stash when the time comes.

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

You have to plan a lot and you have to be really smart about how you're spending your money.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

You would not be able to manage millions of dollars well when you are not managing thousands of dollars well