Dan Ariely Quotes

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

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

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.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

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

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

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.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

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

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

I learned if you have $100 or $100 million - if you spend more than you have, you’re going to go broke.

You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.