William E. Vaughan Quotes

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

The Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money. ... It is a book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

[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.

I always tried to manage my money smart.

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.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

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.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the trouble? And I said I want to give all my money away. And she said, how much do you have? And I said, I owe $300. She stared at me for several seconds, and she said, I see. Well, let's get to work. And maybe by the time you do have some money, you'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

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

None of us always make the best financial decisions.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.