Best Financial Literacy Quotes

#1. If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

Gregory Meeks

#2. We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

Jenny Beck

#3. The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alan Greenspan

#4. Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

Raekwon

#6. And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources.

Melissa Bean

#7. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

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

Ben Bernanke

#9. Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.

Agatha Christie

#10. There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!

Anuranjita Kumar

#11. Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

John Hope Bryant

#12. Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

Strive Masiyiwa

#13. We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

Kabir Sehgal

#14. I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too ... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'

Mitch Hedberg

#15. I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris

#16. Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

Joyce Maynard

#18. The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Stella Young

#19. He knows that the gazelle's power lies in its strong legs. The power of the seagull
lies in the accuracy with which it can spear a fish. He has learned that the reason
the tiger does not fear the hyena is because he is aware of his own strength.

Paulo Coelho

#20. I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

James Surowiecki

#21. I can't understand her
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun

Robert Jordan

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#23. Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation

Robert Kiyosaki

#24. 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.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. I think because I'm 6'4 and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

Patrick Wolf

#26. The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Michelle Singletary

#27. Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#28. I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

Lena Dunham

#29. At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

Ann Cotton

#30. In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

Alexander Dubcek

#31. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

George Carlin

#32. She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

Paulo Coelho

#33. Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

Ann Cotton

#34. Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Ron Lewis

#35. Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.

Orrin Woodward