Quotes About Prudence

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.

Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others.

Never lose your sense of common sense.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.