Saving for the Future Quotes

If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

I got more money than I can spend now.

I don't drive smart cars; I don't go on fancy holidays. All my money has gone on my kids' education.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

The older I get, the more I'm saving the day.

It's hard to think about 20 to 30 years down the road. Most people want to use the money now - it's tough.

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because if life has taught me one thing it's that you never know what is around the corner.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I have kids, I want something left for them. It's a cliche, I know, but it's true. That's what drives me every day.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.