Peter Ustinov Quotes

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

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.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

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.

I was making too much money. I was too young. I didn't know how to deal.