Theo Paphitis Quotes

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

The less you have to think about how to spend every dollar, the more likely you are to spend wisely.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

Consumers, when they've only got a couple of quid left in their pockets, are choosy about how they want to spend it.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, 'Okay, first rule of thumb, I'm not buying it unless I've got the money to buy it,' so I have no debt.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

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.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

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.

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

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

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.