Financial Moderation Quotes

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

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. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.