Esther McVey Quotes

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

I don't make any money.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

The budget is about day-to-day lives.

Dear PAC Pardner: There's not much money left under my mattress, and I need to start building my corral for the next roundup, so I need your help in rustling up some pesos.

Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot of accessories.

My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.