Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

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

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

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.

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.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

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.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

I spend a lot of money on the little things that make me happy, like 3 falafels from M&S to eat on the train on the way up to Edinburgh, but I do keep a close eye on the bigger picture. I don't flash the cash ridiculously on expensive things.

I am trying to make sure that I don't spend on ridiculous things, so that after all this YouTube thing goes, I'm not left there, like, 'Uh oh, I have nothing.'

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

It pays to be a fee fiend.