Chris Rock Quotes

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

When you first make money, you're just excited that you have it and just buy things on a whim. You don't really think about the implications that taxes have, because when you owe money, all of a sudden all of the money in your account - it's gone!

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

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.

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.

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

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

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.

I don’t know anything about money.

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

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

When I bought my first house I had all these red flags on my credit report because I bounced a bunch of checks to places like Pizza Hut and stuff like that for $13 or $15 because I was trying to feed my O-linemen.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.

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.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

Personally, I had made a good amount of dough for a 30-year-old guy, but I didn't know a thing about money. I'm not a dumb guy, but I couldn't figure them out.

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.

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.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

I'm careful with money.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.