John Fleming Quotes

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

I have never had personal debt and never will.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.