Jean Chatzky Quotes

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

I'm really not good with money, and I don't pay attention.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.

I'm bad with money.

My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

I was making too much money. I was too young. I didn't know how to deal.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

I have a bet with my mom that involves a little money, and if I have too many turnovers, she gets in my pocket. I'm afraid of that for sure.