Evan Esar Quotes

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 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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

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.

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

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

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

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

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 interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.

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

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.