Suze Orman Quotes

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I was desperate to understand money. Not to make it, to understand it. I wanted to know how it worked, and I wanted to know so that I would have enough and would be able to make good financial decisions. That led me to Ariel.

I mean, money is a tool.

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 always ignore money.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

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

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

For me, money is a tool.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.