A penny saved is two pence clear.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

On ‚Mystic River,‘ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

Remember that credit is money.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Money often costs too much.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.