Rick Baker Quotes

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

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.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

I'm against spending money to record.

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father's voice: 'Do you really need that?' He was big on saving money and buying as much security as possible. He also encouraged charitable giving. So, I am responsible with currency.

I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.

Frugality is a great revenue.

If we want to be cost-conscious, we should do it, not just talk about how cost-conscious we are.