Jack Benny Quotes

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

I saved my money.

If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I'm going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in.

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

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.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

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.'

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

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.

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'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

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

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

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

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Once you're a saver, you're always a saver. At the end of the day, it's more money in your pocket.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.