John Lanchester Quotes

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

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.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people.

I was desperate to understand money. Not to make it, to understand it. I wanted to know how it worked, and I wanted to know so that I would have enough and would be able to make good financial decisions. That led me to Ariel.

When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

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

I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

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

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

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.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.