Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

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

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

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

I think people think I spend loads but I very rarely treat myself. I could splash out on lots of things but I put my money into properties.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.