Quotes About Budgeting

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

Plans without price tags are simply pandering.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

Once you're a saver, you're always a saver. At the end of the day, it's more money in your pocket.

No matter how much money you have, it's just smart to use coupons. It's like free money in your pocket.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Completing annual appropriations bills would be an important step in responsible federal budgeting.

Congress is not an ATM.

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

In order to become wealthy you have to stop working just to pay your expenses

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.

Everything we stand for can be expressed in terms of how we spend our money.

Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.