Barack Obama Quotes

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

There is never enough money for TV.

I've never gone to the Oscars because I can't afford another week away. It is not more important than my husband. It is not more important than my kids.

The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some accounts and give me money. I started to wonder what it must feel like to actually make a profit, pay taxes, and to have a phone listing, and a manager. And also, I was sick of sleeping around every night.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

I think people think I spend loads but I very rarely treat myself. I could splash out on lots of things but I put my money into properties.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

I can't afford back up vocalists; they're so expensive. Because I'm independent - I'm not signed to a major label, which a lot of people don't know, and it doesn't matter anyway. I can't just have an eight-piece band touring. One day - definitely. That's like a goal.