Tom Douglas Quotes

I have no proper money to invest!

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

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

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

With 4chan, the cost of hosting it added up very quickly and at that time when I was 18, I didn't have the income of my own so it was a challenge to make money and break even on it.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

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.