Suze Orman Quotes

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

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 about financial success as the measurement of my success.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

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.

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.