Charles Schwab Quotes

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

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

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

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.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

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.'

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

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.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

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.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

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've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

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

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

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

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

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.