Aesop Quotes

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

Spend not on hopes.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, 'Okay, first rule of thumb, I'm not buying it unless I've got the money to buy it,' so I have no debt.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Whatever you have, spend less.

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

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

I wouldn't advise anyone to blow their money on cars.