Steve Harvey Quotes

I always tried to manage my money smart.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

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

You have to plan a lot and you have to be really smart about how you're spending your money.

The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

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.

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

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

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

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.

How many people out there really set a budget?

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

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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

I can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'