From making small changes to staying aware of debt, here are the best pieces of financial advice our reporters and anchors learned from their fathers. investinyou (in partnership with acorns)
For senior markets correspondent Dominic Chu, the best money advice he received from his dad was to make sure he didn't accumulate a lot of debt.
"Sometimes if you have to take it out, make sure you can pay it off as quickly as possible," Chu said. "So for me, every time I get a chance to pay off some of that debt, I do."Steve Liesman's lesson from his father came when he bought his first guitar. Liesman, CNBC's senior economics reporter, was trying to negotiate with the salesman and wasn't getting anywhere. That's when his dad stepped in, took the salesman to the side to have a "nice conversation" and got the price lowered by $50.
"I just learned from that to treat people nicely in negotiations and listen to their side," he said. "It worked out really well, but I still don't know to this day what he said to that salesman."Correspondent Contessa Brewer's father never really talked about money when she was growing up, but her parents did open a savings account for her when she was young."He showed me by example that small changes make a big difference.
"The best money lesson my dad ever taught me was how to balance my checkbook and live within my means," she said.
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