Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

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

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

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 education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

We have to make debt evil.

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

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.