John Templeton Quotes

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

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

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I saved my money.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.