Rainy Day Fund Quotes

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply to Congress.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.

When you run a surplus you save it for a rainy day. You don’t spend it.

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.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

I feel very strongly we need to do a better job with the rainy day fund.