Emergency Funds Quotes

While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

After a disaster, processing claims quickly trumps everything.

Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so they will need every dollar.

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Why can we find emergency funds for every other country? Why can't we find emergency funds for our own country?

Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills.

People are dying in this country. I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy... This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals, and 12 pallets of infant food — which, I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek. So I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell. We are dying here. And I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday, we are in trouble.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

In times of crisis, cash is king.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.

Save when you can and not when you have to.