Sadie Frost Quotes

When you have a kid, money matters.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

I often say that paying off your debt is like dieting. There are no miracle cures; it takes discipline and hard work.

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

You need to think about how you will pay for children before you have them.

Whether we are working to pay off student loans, credit card debt, paying for elder or childcare, or even trying to save for retirement, the idea of the American dream still remains just that - a dream.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

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

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

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.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.