Marco Arment Quotes

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

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

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

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

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.

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

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

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

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.