Diego Simeone Quotes

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

If I spend silly, it's going to look bad, in a way, because I do all this charity work as well.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

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

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

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.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.