Sidney Sheldon Quotes

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

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

The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

I'm emotional, so if I see something I like, that's it, and I want it.

Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.