Frank Gehry Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I live way below my means.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

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

We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

I spend a lot of money on the little things that make me happy, like 3 falafels from M&S to eat on the train on the way up to Edinburgh, but I do keep a close eye on the bigger picture. I don't flash the cash ridiculously on expensive things.

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

Whatever you have, spend less.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

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.'

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

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