Joe Garagiola Quotes

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

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

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

And plenty makes us poor.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.