Money talks

“I would like to think I will bring my kids up to want to say the same thing to me. It would be a real measure of success if [my] kids grew up with that attitude.” Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies told her parents not to worry about leaving her an inheritance, quoted in the Daily Express

“I don’t tend to blow money except if it’s on something big – because as the prime minister Harold Macmillan once said when asked what he was most afraid of: ‘Events, dear boy, events.’ You never know what might come at you out of a clear blue sky, so I like to have some money set aside for a rainy day.” Writer Gerald Seymour, in The Sunday Times

“Pay your tax. Be straight. My accountant is so straight it is literally painful sometimes.” Rapper Professor Green on the biggest lesson he had learned about money, quoted in The Telegraph

“I’ve wrestled with this a lot… just how much money I suddenly fell into. It messed with me. I knew what it was like to not have. And then suddenly, I had, way more than I ever needed. I was like: ‘What do people even do with this?’” YouTube influencer Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach, quoted on Dexerto

“I still try not to pay full price for anything. I’m probably the tightest person anyone ever meets. If I have to pay full price for a Krispy Kreme donut, I cry inside.” Viral money-saving star Jordon Cox, quoted in The Mail on Sunday

“I’m frustrated by Democrats who believe that throwing more money at policing is going to solve these problems… We can’t send the police out to ‘clean up the streets’. Where are we going to put these folks? In jail?” Singer John Legend on US homelessness, quoted in The Guardian