J. H. Wyman Quotes

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in the old days, where money is coming in and budgets are endless, but bands have to pay that back. Some bands just don't realize that.

If you only take money in the bank and never put money in the bank, you'll go broke.

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.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

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

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

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

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

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

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.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.