Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I love to spend money.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

The impulse to spend seizes everyone. He who, the whole year through has taken pleasure is saving and piling up his money suddenly becomes extravagant. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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

In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains. I have amazing parents.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.