Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I was making too much money. I was too young. I didn't know how to deal.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

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

I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the importance of savings and investing. I want to try to replicate the great savers who came out of the Depression, the best savers the country has ever seen. It's crucial that people understand the importance of financial literacy, because it's actually life saving.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

You will either learn to manage money, or the lack of it will manage you.

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

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.

I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.