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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
I understand that finance can be very complex.
The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
I'm primarily just an investor.
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.
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.