Saving Money Quotes - Page 5

• Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

  Walter Slezak

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Buying Things

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Aug 25, 2010

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

  Betty Smith

  Book, Hard Work, Smell

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

  George Burns

  Funny, Reading, Book

  "The Most of George Burns".

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.

  David Letterman

  Valentines Day, Together, Beets

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Nba, Cities

  "No longer standing tall / Former Warrior center Manute Bol reduced to living in poverty" by Declan Walsh, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2001.

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• In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  Money, People, Saving

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• 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.

  James J. Hill

  Simple, Thinking, May

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• What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

  Dana Perino

  New York, Want, Complaining

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Marriage, Money, Good Things

  "E! true Hollywood story : the real stories behind the glitter" by Lanford Beard, (p. 146), 2005.

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• Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Money, Pockets, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Humanity, Novices

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• The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  F. H. Bradley

  Running, Long, Entrepreneur

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• Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

  Bill Gates

  Alzheimer's, Innovation, Cost

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The people who are taking these loans because it's the only way they can afford their house are exposing themselves to a lot of risk. They're not saving money and they're not building equity, which means they could find themselves in a scenario where they owe more money than their house is worth.

  Ric Edelman

  Mean, People, House

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• Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

  Arnold Palmer

  Saving, Worried, Danger

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• I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

  Kato Kaelin

  Money, Thinking, Roots

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• Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Soul, Energy

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.40, Verso

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• Frugality includes all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Money, Wealth, Virtue

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• I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

  Derek Kilmer

  Order, Months, Pounds

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• Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fall, Blood, Years

  "An open, transparent NHS is a safer NHS" by Andrew Lansley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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