William Faulkner Quotes

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

These days, checks are direct-deposited, money comes out of a machine in the wall, and we swipe a plastic card to make a purchase. In other words, your kids can grow up thinking money comes in an endless supply if you don't show them otherwise.

My dad came from quite a poor background, so we were made to understand the value of money from an early age, and because of that, I always wanted to be self-sufficient and earn my own money.

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

Everybody blows their first money.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

Both [of my granddaughters] Octavia and Lavinia have May birthdays. I've just been birthday shopping with them. But the shopping has a budget. I say, "Okay, if you pick this out, then you'll have how much left?" I wait for them to do the calculation, and they'll say, "$18." And we stand there and talk about, hmm, is that sweater really worth that much? And the girls work it through.Doing that takes away some of the magic of money.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.