William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

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

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

Stop spending money you don't have.

If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

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

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

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.

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

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

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

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.