Steven Soderbergh Quotes

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

It's your money. You paid for it.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

Both [of my granddaughters] Octavia and Lavinia have May birthdays. I've just been birthday shopping with them. But the shopping has a budget. I say, "Okay, if you pick this out, then you'll have how much left?" I wait for them to do the calculation, and they'll say, "$18." And we stand there and talk about, hmm, is that sweater really worth that much? And the girls work it through.Doing that takes away some of the magic of money.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

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.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

I very much support financial education in schools.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.