Suze Orman Quotes

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if we ever learn how to program on this thing. But the idea is that to make money concrete. So, you can do this app, and it's not out there, but you can do the app. And you say, "I like vacation in the Bahamas, shoes, lattes, and books." And now, when you are tempted to buy something, that thing translates in terms of the things you are interested in.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.