Lucius Annaeus Quotes

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.'

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

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

It pays to be a fee fiend.

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

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

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

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

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

I'm careful with money.

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.

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.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

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

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.