Victor Borge Quotes

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

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