Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

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.

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

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

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

With the money thing it is mad. As a young kid earning so much, having a house and driving a nice car it is nice but it is something I keep level-headed about.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

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.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.

We are young; we are naive with money. Money can go fast. If anyone thinks he is something better just because he has more money in the account, then he can very quickly fall on your face.

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.

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.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it.

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

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.