We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.
Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.
I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
'The Empty Bank' talks about really specific instances where I kind of make the wrong moves based off of money, and it also details instances where I was acting like I had money when I really didn't have that much money.
My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
