Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

Don't overspend. Have budget days and splurge days.

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

I spend a lot of money on the little things that make me happy, like 3 falafels from M&S to eat on the train on the way up to Edinburgh, but I do keep a close eye on the bigger picture. I don't flash the cash ridiculously on expensive things.

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.