Benjamin Franklin Quotes

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

I don't make any money.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

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

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

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

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

You can always use more money.

I don’t know anything about money.

Moneys imployed at Interest in this Nation, are not near the Tenth part, disposed to Trading People, wherewith to manage their Trades; but are for the most part lent for the supplying of Luxury, and to support the Expence of Persons, who though great Owners of Lands, yet spend faster than their Lands bring in; and being loath to sell, choose rather to mortgage their Estates.

… significant spending decisions — expanding a business, buying a house or choosing how much to spend on consumer goods over the year — depend on expectations of income, employment and other economic conditions over the longer term, as well as longer-term interest rates.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.