Caroline Ghosn Quotes

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

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

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

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 never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

How many people out there really set a budget?

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.