Caitlin Moran Quotes

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.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

Prohibiting Poverty

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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 suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

I live way below my means.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.