Living Within Your Means Quotes

I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.

Live according to your income.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

I don't have a lavish lifestyle.

When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.