Favorite quote or money motivator?

[LuxLiving]

"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." ~Daniel Webster

[allbadgirl]

My favorite money motivator is seeing money in my savings account!!

[click4credit]

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw

[LuxLiving]

"It is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture." ~Benjamin Franklin

[LuxLiving]

"The only way regular people can stay ahead of inflation's voracious appetite is to curb their own." ~R. Devadason

[LuxLiving]

"I had rather have my house too small for a day, than too large for a twelvemonth." ~Rousseau

[LuxLiving]

"Know when to spend and when to spare, And when to buy, and thou shalt ne'er be bare." ~unknown

[LuxLiving]

"Do not accustom yourself to consider
debt only an inconvenience;
you will find it a calamity.

Let it be your first care not to be in any man's debt.

Whatever you have, spend less.

Frugality is not only the basis of quiet,
but of beneficence." ~Johnson

[LuxLiving]

"Most men work for the present, a few for the future. The wise work for both--for the future in the present, and for the present in the future."--'Guesses at Truth'

[LuxLiving]

"By no means run in debt:
take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pounds a year,
Cannot on forty:
he's a man of pleasure,
A kind of thing that's for itself too dear."--George Herbert

[Bookie]

You are the sole support of this thread, and I, for one, appreciate it.

Great quotations.

[LuxLiving]

Thanks Bookie!!

"Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue. It merely requires common sense, and the power of resisting selfish enjoyments.

In fact, thrift is merely common sense in every-day working action. It needs no fervent resolution, but only a little patient self-denial.

BEGIN is its device!

The more the habit of thrift is practised, the easier it becomes; and the sooner it compensates the self-denier for the sacrifices which it has imposed."

~S. Smiles

[Coleroo]

"Life's too short to wear holey underwear."


(from me)

I made this quote up a few weeks ago (while tossing a pair of ones with holes) - I was in the midst of getting my where-to-spend-money priorities right.

[LuxLiving]

"Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue." ~Cicero

[LuxLiving]

"A noble heart, will disdain to
subsist, like a drone,
upon others' labours;
like a vermin to filch
its food out of
the public granary;
or, like a shark,
to prey upon the lesser fry;
but it will rather outdo his
private obligations to
other men's care and toil,
by considerable service and
beneficence to the public;
for there is no
calling of any sort,
from the sceptre to the spade,
the management whereof,
with any good success,
any credit, any satisfaction,
doth not
demand much work of
the head, or of the hands,
or of both." ~Barrow

[LuxLiving]

"I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money." ~Dave Ramsey

[HeartCarved]

Keep them coming, Lux (and everyone else!) This thread is a fount of encouragement when I'm feeling low.

[LuxLiving]

"Care preserves what Industry gains. He who attends to his business diligently but _not_ carefully, throws away with one hand what he gathers with the other." --Colton

[LuxLiving]

"You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's." ~Vance Packard

[LuxLiving]

"D.E.B.T.

Don’t Ever Buy Trinkets
Don’t Expand Belongings Too much
Discover Every Benefit To simplicity
Divide Envelopes for Budgeting Things
Don’t Exhaust Borrowing Terms
Develop Emergency fund for Bad Times" ~Jodi, savingadvice.com blogger