Dan Buettner Quotes

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

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

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

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 am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

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

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.