Tony Lema Quotes

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

I learned if you have $100 or $100 million - if you spend more than you have, you’re going to go broke.

Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

Everybody blows their first money.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

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

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.