Heber J. Grant Quotes

The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

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

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We have to get serious about living within our means.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

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.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

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.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.