Food Quote by Richard Thaler

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.

— Elizabeth Warren

“How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?”

— Ian McEwan

“Real people don’t make their livings that way any more. Those three romantics out there make as much sense as Marie Antoinette and her…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

— Adam Savage

Clearly when there is a character based on you on 'South Park' or 'The Simpsons,' that is something that sticks with you for the…

— Chris Hansen

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions…

— Napoleon Hill

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

— Tom Shales

“A person who actually has a high self-worth is able to look at the negative parts of his character frankly—“Yes, sometimes I’m irresponsible with…

— Mark Manson

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will…

— Samuel Smiles

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

— Thomas Keneally