Tom Shales Quotes

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Spending is an addiction.

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

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

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

The world does not need another credit card.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

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.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

It's always possible to spend more money.

We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

Money can be detrimental for kids.