Jim Messina Quotes

If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

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

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

I hate wasting time.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

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.

I'm careful with money.