John Fowles Quotes

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

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

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I'ma keep it too.

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.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

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

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

You will either learn to manage money, or the lack of it will manage you.

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.