Ellen Goodman Quotes

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a rainy day. It's sad. It really is a new form of slavery. We used to work to be able to afford material things. Now we work for these things. They're the boss. That house you can't afford, that car that's out of your price range, that cellphone that drains your bank account - that's your boss.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

A new car is not going to change your life.

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.