Checking Accounts Quotes

• Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Adults, United States, Nine

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

  Suze Orman

  Track, Balance, Wrecks

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• There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Ghetto, Littles

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• When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

  Dan Ariely

  Should Have, Numbers, Saving

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

  Chris Gardner

  Balance, Important, Life Is

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• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Cash Flow, Balance, Size

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• It's kind of like...with our own checking accounts, just because it's in there doesn't mean you should spend it or can spend it. You know that you have the rent coming.

  Jerry Jones

  Mean, Kind, Should

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• If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use cash more than credit cards. But in general, we can think about how to use the pain of paying and how much of it do we want. And I think we have like a range. Credit cards have very little pain of paying, debit cards have a little bit more because you feel like today, at least it is coming out of your checking account, and cash has much more.

  Dan Ariely

  Pain, Thinking, Cards

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". bigthink.com.

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• We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

  Tim Stevens

  Cards, Credit, Assuming

  "Shopping online without plastic" by Jason Krause, www.cnn.com. September 10, 1998.

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• The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Deposits, Overfishing

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• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.

  Chris Matthews

  Break Through, The End Of The Day, Campaigns

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• From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

  Genie Francis

  Running, Thinking, Clothes

  "Genie Francis Promises to Deliver Another Emotional Note". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. January 30, 2009.

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• I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

  Marie Osmond

  Home, Marie, Known

  "Marie Osmond Joins a Throng of Wedding Belles and Beaux Who Have Taken the Plunge". people.com. July 5, 1982.

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