Suze Orman Quotes

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 was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

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

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

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.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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

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.

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.

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

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

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

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

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

I saved my money.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

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.

I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!