Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

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  Funny, Time, Money

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• Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.

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  Money, Average, Years

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Money, Becoming, Roles

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

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  Choices, Would Be, Financial

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• hindsight is not a strategy.

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  Planning, Strategy, Hindsight

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• The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

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  Looks, Function, Chiefs

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• Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

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  Lawyer

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• Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

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  Trying, Claims, Interest

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• 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.

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  Money, Giving, Advice

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1979). “Everyone's money book”

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• 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.

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  Retirement, Character, Challenges

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.842, Simon and Schuster

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• You get the most out of what you need the least.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Needs

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• Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

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  Political, Election, Should

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• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

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  Real, Yield, Class

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• Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

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  Law, Bridges, Justice

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• 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

  Money, Two, Want

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• The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

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  Stay Strong, Giving Up, Numbers

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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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  Money, Commitment, Maturity

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Bridges, Tolls, Driving

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Money, Years, Yesterday

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Money, Towns, Bankers

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Appreciation, Flower, Home

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Smart, Cards, Credit

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2006). “Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Running, Money, Cutting

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

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  Real, Said, Estates

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.985, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Brain, Firsts, Clients

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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