Barack Obama Quotes

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

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.'

A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

One of the most important aspects of an athlete's financial life is that he needs to be personally responsible for his own finances.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

Money doesn't solve anything.

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

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

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Financial security puts me at ease and makes me reel good about my future

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.