Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

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Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Jane Bryant Quinn
It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Jane Bryant Quinn
There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Jane Bryant Quinn
The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

Jane Bryant Quinn
A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Jane Bryant Quinn
It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank — and the dorks all have it.

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For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.

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You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

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Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

Jane Bryant Quinn
It's hard to believe what people buy at garage sales and then chuck into their own garages.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

Jane Bryant Quinn
Never pass up a garage sale. But pass up most of what's there.

Jane Bryant Quinn
Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

Jane Bryant Quinn
No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

Jane Bryant Quinn