Financial Illiteracy Quotes & Sayings

Some people argue that teaching children financial basics is the parents' job. However, this well-meant sentiment is what we're relying on now, and for all too many, it isn't working. In some families, financial illiteracy is passed on from generation to generation. Education takes place in the home, on the streets, and in the schools. Therefore, schools must bear some responsibility for teaching this skill. However, if you're raising children, remember that no one cares as much as you do or has as much ability to teach the important life skill of personal money management. — Eric Tyson

Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance. — Rodd Wagner

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The rich does not work for money, but money work for them ... , While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle ... ,Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward ... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive? ... ,Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column ... , — Robert T. Kiyosaki