Chris Colfer Quotes

In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the importance of savings and investing. I want to try to replicate the great savers who came out of the Depression, the best savers the country has ever seen. It's crucial that people understand the importance of financial literacy, because it's actually life saving.

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

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.

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

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

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.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

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

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people.

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.

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.

When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.

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!

You have to learn how to take an allowance.

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

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

I very much support financial education in schools.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.