Deborah Meaden Quotes

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

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.

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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

Of course, the human part of you wants to take as much money as you see, but all money isn't good money.

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.

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

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.

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.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

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.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

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.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.