Anderson Cooper Quotes

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

Because I was given everything I didn't know the value of money. My dad always bailed me out.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into trouble. My parents did a good job of sheltering me from the negative aspects of wealth and success.

Every time I got paid, I would give my parents money. I would save some money, and I would have a little money to spend.

The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.

My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

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.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.