Jean Chatzky Quotes

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

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

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they'll be.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

My biggest thing to say is just don't worry about money.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

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.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.

When it comes to money, I can earn it.