Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

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.'

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

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.

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

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

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.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

The impulse to spend seizes everyone. He who, the whole year through has taken pleasure is saving and piling up his money suddenly becomes extravagant. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

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.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.