Kent Nerburn Quotes

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

I was making $19,000 a year, and I thought I was rich.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

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.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

I do think your attitude towards money is an inherent part of your character.

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Money is not an issue to me. My mother always tells me, money, it comes and it goes.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Wait 'till I get my money right.

The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded.

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.