Wayne Messam Quotes

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.

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

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

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

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.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

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

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

We have to make debt evil.

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

I'm careful with money.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.