Michelle Singletary famous quotes

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

#Hate #School #Grandmother

Don't let people scare you from a career that may not net you a six figure salary. If you want to be a teacher, teach. But knowing that your salary may only reach a certain level, do all that you can to become the best money manager you can be.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Teacher #Careers #Knowing

I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Teaching #Skills #People

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Careers #Advice #Firsts

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Mean #Ideas #Identity

You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Thinking #Blessing #Water

The rich are depressed because they realize their money can't buy them out of their issues.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Issues #Realizing #Rich

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Debt #Doe

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Children #Mean #College

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Mistake #People #Financial

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Jobs #Income #Way

Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Love #Money #Fighting

Priorities lead to prosperity.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Priorities #Prosperity

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Numbers #Firsts #Half

If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.
-- Michelle Singletary

#Money #Children #Grandmother