Tony Parsons Quotes

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

You need to think about how you will pay for children before you have them.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.

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.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

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

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

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