Mellody Hobson Quotes

A penny saved is a penny earned.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

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.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

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 am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

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.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

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'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.