Sofia Coppola Quotes

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I live way below my means.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

You keep your rent low, which takes some of the pressure off. So when I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I don't mean, 'Give me more money.' I mean 'no.'

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.