George Eliot Quotes

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

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 think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

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.

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

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.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

I'm very weird with my money.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

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

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