Benjamin Cohen Quotes

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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.'

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.

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.

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

The goal was to work enough to pay my bills and stop going through the couch looking for change. Going way beyond that isn't something I really factored in.

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

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

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

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.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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

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.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

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.

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

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

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

When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.

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.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

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.