Jeanette Winterson Quotes

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

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

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

I'm very weird with my money.

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

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

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

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

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.