Suze Orman Quotes

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.