Naomi Watts Quotes

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

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

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make our country one of the happiest upon earth.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.