Ari Shaffir Quotes

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

I didn't want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn't making the same money, I couldn't afford my lifestyle.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

We all have pretty much similar dreams, and at the root of all those dreams is being able to be in control of your money.

The goal was to work enough to pay my bills and stop going through the couch looking for change. Going way beyond that isn't something I really factored in.

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.