Barack Obama Quotes

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

I made $2.58 an hour, and I spent it all on clothes.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

Budget the luxuries first.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head.

Budget drives everything that we do.

Health care is out of people’s reach because it is expensive.

Health care is the Pac-Man of the budget.

Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

Don't overspend. Have budget days and splurge days.

If I spend silly, it's going to look bad, in a way, because I do all this charity work as well.

I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187