David H. Murdock Quotes

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

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

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.