Quotes About Savings

I tell everyone never to take more than a fifteen-year fixed-rate loan, and never have a payment of over 25 percent of your take-home pay. That is the most you should ever borrow.

what determines your wealth is not how much you make but how much you keep of what you make.

In fact, what determines your wealth is not how much you make but how much you keep of what you make.

A latte a day keeps retirement away

keep your nest egg growing faster than inflation isn't all that hard.

A latte spurned is a fortune earned.

The problem isn't our income; it's what we do with our money once we get it... how much you earn has almost no bearing on whether or not you can and will build wealth.

If you have $10,000 sitting in a savings or checking account earning only 1.0 percent annually when it could be earning 4.5 percent, you are cheating yourself out of $450 a year in interest. The way I see it, that's a plane ticket to Hawaii or a fancy dream night out on the town or more money in your retirement account! In other words, that so-called free checking account at the bank really isn't. Quite the contrary, it's costing you a fortune.

A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, such strong social taboos would not be needed to help ensure survival.

A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. This repression, in effect, was their substitute for insurance policies. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, such strong social taboos would not be needed to help ensure survival.

Well, I've already got ten thousand set aside. That's a good start. If you think about it when we get home, give me your Social and next time I drop by the bank, I'll open an account in your name, okay?

Think of it—all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

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

under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

I have recommended cutting the tax on cell phones and TVs for every Florida family so they can save around $43 a year for spending as little as $100 a month on cell phone and TV bills combined.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

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

A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.

Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it.

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.