financial literacy quotes

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.