Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

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

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

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.