Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

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

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

I am damn good with money.

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

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!'

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

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.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

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.