Mason Cooley Quotes

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

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 is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

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.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

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

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

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

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

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

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

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

I'm a bit of a shopaholic. I've been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.

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

Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.