Ali Liebegott Quotes

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

The goal was to work enough to pay my bills and stop going through the couch looking for change. Going way beyond that isn't something I really factored in.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

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.

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.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

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.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

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

I prefer to stay poor.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

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

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.