We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.
I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.
Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.
I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
'The Empty Bank' talks about really specific instances where I kind of make the wrong moves based off of money, and it also details instances where I was acting like I had money when I really didn't have that much money.
My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
