Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

I saved my money.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make our country one of the happiest upon earth.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

When I was a kid, I was big into saving up my money.

Sometimes I feel like I could have been a Depression-era person, just because of my need to make sure that I'm conservative in how I think about money.

I'm careful with money.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'