Alexa Von Tobel Quotes

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

I can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

I was desperate to understand money. Not to make it, to understand it. I wanted to know how it worked, and I wanted to know so that I would have enough and would be able to make good financial decisions. That led me to Ariel.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different.

We're trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.

The concept of 'Dhan Dhana Dhan' is an entertaining one, and I am sure the audience will like it.

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.

It's not what you make, but how you feel about what you make and what you spend.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.