Money talks

“They were not profligate with money, my parents. In the 1980s, after my dad was made redundant from his job with Unilever, he told us we couldn’t have friends back to the house in case, and I quote, they ‘made some toast’.” Comedian David Baddiel on growing up with his late father, quoted in The Sunday Times

“Buy when there’s blood in the tweets.” Financial journalist Morgan Housel on Twitter

“We have to be wary of bubbles… At the beginning of the internet, there were all sorts of things popping up and then the bubble burst. There may be relevant applications, but we have to see what universes might actually be profitable.” LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault on the Metaverse, quoted on CNBC

“I don’t even use a purse. I just put my credit card in my phone case and put that in my bra, then I don’t need a bag. I’m not very good with cash – it feels like Monopoly money.” Olympic skier and sports presenter Chemmy Alcott, quoted in

The Sunday Times

“I was doing an advert for Vidal Sassoon, playing a hairstylist… They flew over Sassoon’s top stylist to do my hair for the shoot, but he looked at it and went: ‘No, I like it. It’s fine’. So I did Sassoon’s major advert with a £4.50 haircut from a dodgy barber in Manchester.” Property-flipping TV presenter Martin Roberts, quoted in

The Daily Telegraph

“They were great fun and I made lots of friends. My best friend, Julie, I met in Miss Liverpool, which I won in 1979. I was a student and the money came in very handy. It also meant you could get into nightclubs for free.” Debbie Greenwood on winning beauty contests, quoted in the Daily Express