Money Handling Quotes

Money without brains is always dangerous.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

I don't think I'm particularly good with money, but I have made some.

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

John Boehner - doesn't he look like every guy you've ever seen at a hotel bar? He looks like the kind of guy who licks his thumb when he counts his money.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

I am damn good with money.

You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.

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

Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless would probably spend it on fast food and cheap beer, not on fruit or education.

We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

The truth is, I never travel without cash. I always take a few tens with me in case of an emergency. There's never been an emergency, and in time, I realized that Americans don't want to touch customers' dirty bills. They also don't want to touch your credit card: you have to put it through the machine yourself, with your own fingers.

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.