financial choices Quotes

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

I feel like that is saying to young people, "You have no chance of ever getting out of debt in your life, right?" Personally, I think that the role of the press is to ensure that the American public understands who their choices are.

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

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

Honestly, I'm such a shoe girl. I like to save money, and I like to spend money on shoes.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.

Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.