Lessons: Money

1. You get what you pay for.

2. A penny saved is a penny earned.

3. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

4. Money doesn’t grow on trees.

5. Mo’ money, mo’ problems.

6. You have to spend money to make money.

7. The best things in life are free.

8. Early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy, and wise.

9. You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.

10. It’s easy to meet expenses – everywhere we go, there they are.

11. You can’t take it with you.

12. Invest in experiences, not things.

13. Control your money before it controls you.

The Bottom Line

Learning about money is simple, but understanding our feelings around it is complicated.

You can be rich and still be someone no one respects or wants to be around.

Money cannot buy effort. The best gift you can give someone is attention.

Cheesy money sayings abound, but they don’t exist just to annoy us.

Most of the time, sayings and advice that gets passed down from one generation to the next have quite a bit of truth to them.

Perhaps it’s time we stop rolling our eyes and start listening. Chances are, we could all learn something