Azita Ghanizada Quotes

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

I'm fabulous on a budget.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

I don't shop as much as I find.

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

Consumers, when they've only got a couple of quid left in their pockets, are choosy about how they want to spend it.

These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

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

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?