Quotes About Financial Literacy

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Gregory Meeks

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

Ben Bernanke

#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. 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

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Ann Cotton

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

John W. Rogers Jr.

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Alan Greenspan

#19. Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Frederick Reines

#20. It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

Daisaku Ikeda

#21. Does six strike you as a good number?" I didn't know what he was getting at. "Six isn't exactly a lucky number," I hedged. "If I were looking for a good number I'd have to go up to seven." I shrugged. "Or down to three.

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#23. 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

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

Orrin Woodward

#25. I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Julie Andrews

#26. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#27. Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

Alex Ferguson