Jean Chatzky Quotes

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce." She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away. "I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

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

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. When you consciously open, read, and file away your bills and statements, you are connecting with your money and taking control of your life.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.