Mike Huckabee Quotes

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

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

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

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.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

Whatever you have, spend less.

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

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

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.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Spend not on hopes.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

When you run a surplus you save it for a rainy day. You don’t spend it.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

My philosophy is to live below your means.