Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

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.

One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.

I very much support financial education in schools.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

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 don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

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

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.