Jean Chatzky Quotes

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

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I saved my money.

I put a portion of my salary to the side.

I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

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

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

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 don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.