Terry Branstad Quotes

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

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.

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.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

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

It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

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 know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

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

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.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.