Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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

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

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‚What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?‘. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Money often costs too much.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

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.

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

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.

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

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