The Best Personal Finance Quotes & Sayings

Being the highly trained investment mogul that I am, I could certainly find places to put that money where it would earn more. Or would it? Remember, personal finance is personal. I have come to realize that Sharon's peace of mind bought with the oversized emergency fund is a great return on investment. Guys, this can be a wonderful gift to your wife. An Emergency Fund Can — Dave Ramsey

You don't have to be a miser, just be wiser with your money. — Dorethia Conner Kelly

Foundations in Personal Finance. — Dave Ramsey

Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week? — Ian Lamont

Getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100% of your effort, a never give-up attitude and a deep desire & commitment. — Abhishek Kumar

Pick up any book about personal finance and you're likely to read a 200-page mind-fuck about being cheap. Of course, these books don't overtly say, "Be cheap," but hide behind slippery phrases like "the simple life" or "frugal living." Some — MJ DeMarco

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term. — Jean Chatzky

When you know the impact of little expenses, you will realise that there is nothing little in this world. — Manoj Arora

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully. — James Altucher

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. — Aaron Patzer

Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget. — Leslie Tayne

The struggle for Financial Freedom is very unfair. Just look at the rewards. — Manoj Arora

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster. — Amah Lambert

Many will want what you have, but few will do what you do. — David W. Robbins

The starting point for 'discounts' may be the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological victory that will make them feel good about the purchase, even if the discounted price is still expensive. — Ian Lamont

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it. — James Altucher

Financial stability is much more about doing the best with what you have and not about achieving a certain level of income. — Erik Wecks

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie. — Amah Lambert

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go. — Manoj Arora

You do pay a price for your Financial Freedom, but it is far lesser than what you pay for a Lifetime Slavery. — Manoj Arora

At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer. — Ian Lamont

Personal finance, like most important aspects of life, is a never-ending quest. The competent investor never stops learning. — William J. Bernstein

The truly wealthy don't often pursue status. They don't need to. They have already made it. The pursuit of Rolex watches and $100,000 vehicles is for wannabes like you and me. Why pursue status when you've already achieved it? — Erik Wecks

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members — Sunday Adelaja

We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not. — Helaine Olen

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. — Dave Ramsey

A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day. — Anya Kamenetz

Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online. — Jean Chatzky

Money Compounding is one concept that does not hit you unless your stars are aligned — Manoj Arora

Thanks to relentless media exposure and little-understood financing and sales practices, not to mention the perception of autos as important status indicators, most people replace their cars on a regular basis. — Ian Lamont

Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first American DeBeers store opened on Fifth Avenue in June 2005, protesting the evictions of Bushmen in Botswana to make room for diamond miners and the charges that the company dealt in "blood diamonds" used to finance civil wars in Africa.
Her presence meant nothing to young Hollywood beauties who are pleased to shill for the diamond industry in magazine layouts and personal appearances.
As Steinem stood outside, Lindsay Lohan was inside the party, gushing over the possibility that she could get to wear one of the big rocks.
Asked by reporters about the Bushmen controversy, she shrugged it off: "I don't get involved in any drama. — Maureen Dowd

Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance! — Nancy Tellem