Peter Lynch Quotes

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

I very much support financial education in schools.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

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.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

You can learn investing by reading books.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.

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.

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

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

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 can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.