Chuck Feeney Quotes

Stop spending money you don't have.

We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

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

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

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

I spend my money like I don't have anything.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

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

Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.