Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

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

Money often costs too much.

The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

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.

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

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.

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.

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It’s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn’t matter where it comes from.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

My whole thing in life is I just want freedom. I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong. It bound me more than it freed me, because now I had more things to worry about, more people asking for money, I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.