Laura Miller Quotes

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

Spend not on hopes.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

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

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

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.

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

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

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Stop spending money you don't have.

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

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

I am pro live below your means.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

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

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.