Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Living above your means is financial sin.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

I spend my money like I don't have anything.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.