LZ Granderson Quotes

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

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

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

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.