Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I care about my quality of life and money.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.

Money doesn't solve anything.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

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

He that is rich is wise.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.