KSI Quotes

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

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.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

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.'

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

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

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

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

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.