Duff McKagan Quotes

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

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.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

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.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

I'm proud that LearnVest is creating content that helps expectant moms tackle their finances. As much as possible, we hope to lessen the stress during what is said to be such a life-changing time.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.