Roger Moore Quotes

I realized that I should give serious attention to financial recovery … For ever since I took command of my affairs I had daily uncovered new evidence of … wastefulness.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

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

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

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.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

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

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

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

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.