Mother Teresa Quotes

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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

I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

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.

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.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

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

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.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

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.

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.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

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.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

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

Frugality is for the vulgar.