financial mindfulness Quotes

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

... show respect for your money ... Then your money will think and care about you in return.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for £6,000, and funnily enough it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.