Georgina Bloomberg Quotes

My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

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

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.

Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

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'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

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

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

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

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.

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 never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.