Sophie Kinsella Quotes

It pays to be a fee fiend.

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 there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

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

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

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

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operation in the summertime, worked as a caddy; all things to make money and save money. Save money in order to invest - that was the first step, though I never really accumulated very much because of other demands like bicycles and things like that.

I saved my money.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

I live way below my means.

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.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.