Jam Master Jay Quotes

Time is key to building your financial security.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

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

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

It is never too early to encourage long-term savings.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

I don’t know anything about money.

Some folks can have all the money in the world, and still not know what to do with it.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.

Whatever your income level is, save as much as you can - up to 20 percent, but more if you can - and invest it. Put that into an IRA; put that into a brokerage account.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and I'll bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.