budgeting quotes

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.

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.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

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

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

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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