Dan Ariely Quotes

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

If my little girl wants a toy or something, sometimes I say, 'I don't have the money'. It's quite difficult to understand why I'm saying that, but she needs to understand that nothing comes easy.

Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to get people to be saving more for retirement. Behavioral economics has helped us learn a lot about how to do that.

When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

My family taught me about saving and how to stretch to make ends meet.

I spend a lot of money on the little things that make me happy, like 3 falafels from M&S to eat on the train on the way up to Edinburgh, but I do keep a close eye on the bigger picture. I don't flash the cash ridiculously on expensive things.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

Every time I got paid, I would give my parents money. I would save some money, and I would have a little money to spend.

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 plan to retire at 50. When I'm done, I ain't touching no more keyboards.

I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.

You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, 'Okay, first rule of thumb, I'm not buying it unless I've got the money to buy it,' so I have no debt.

I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I worked at Sears; I worked at Abercrombie folding clothes. My dad really instilled good money management habits, and I've saved 10 percent of my paycheck, every paycheck, since I was 15.

I put a portion of my salary to the side.

I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.