Michelle Singletary Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• [My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.

  Michelle Singletary

  Grandmother, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.

  Michelle Singletary

  Hate, Grandmother, House

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• 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

• 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

• My grandmother was extremely smart when it came to money, but she also worried a lot about not having enough. So it's with her in mind that I aim to explain complicated financial things so the folks like her won't be afraid to make certain money moves.

  Michelle Singletary

  Smart, Moving, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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