Alice Englert Quotes

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

The kids of America, please get a damn job. Get out of the house, leave the refrigerator alone. Stop wearing my shoes. Leave my shirts alone, get a job. Spend your own money.

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

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.

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.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

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.'

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

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

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.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

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

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

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.