If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
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The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
I understand that finance can be very complex.