Suze Orman Quotes

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I live way below my means.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Whatever you have, spend less.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.