Quotes on Spending your money your way?

Question

Im 17 and have a job. my parents are telling me how to spend my money. ugh its my money i earned it shouldnt i be able to spend it my way. if i spend it foolishly i ill eventually realize it and be more careful. i need to learn somethings the hard way or ill never learn right? well they need to stop protecting me so much and let me learn the right way..not the easy way out b.c there wont always be an easy way out.

Any quotes on spending your money the way you want?

Answer 1

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like”

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Answer 2

Money talks; mine says "bye-bye."

Answer 3

"Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more." -Francis Bacon

"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures."

-Henry Anatole Grunwald