Kevin-Prince Boateng Quotes

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Anybody who probably lives alone and they have three or four cars, that's probably somebody that's spending a lot of money that they don't need to.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

Now that I have the access and money, I spend all of it on clothes and shoes. I have no other pursuits. I don't drink or smoke.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.

The Happy Warrior of Squandermania.

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

It was frightful and almost incredible…that any government should go a—hunting to the uttermost ends of the earth to find means and opportunities of squandering its treasure…for no conceivable purpose of policy.

We have a bad habit. We buy what we want and beg what we need.

Lotteries are a tax on ignorance

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.