Financial Skills Quotes

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.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

When you grow up in America today, most schools don't teach you about money and investing. You could literally take a class in woodshop or auto in high school and not take a class on money.

I am good at raising money.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

I am damn good with money.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

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.

I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.

I'm so not a financial person.

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood value, how to take a company's financials apart and couple that with good judgment about businesses, macro trends, and where things are going.