Sylvia Porter Quotes

• Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

  Sylvia Porter

  Education, Invest In Yourself

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• Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

  Sylvia Porter

  Motivation, Support, Coins

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

  Sylvia Porter

  Family, Money, Average

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

  Sylvia Porter

  Relationship, Silence, Flags

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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

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  Dream, Retirement, Mean

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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• I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

  Sylvia Porter

  Independent, Conflict, Femininity

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• One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

  Sylvia Porter

  Fields, Remember, Finance

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• I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

  Sylvia Porter

  Writing, Names, Noise

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• Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

  Sylvia Porter

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

  Sylvia Porter

  Injustice, Economic, Economic Injustice

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• I am not and should not be considered an economist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Should, Economist

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• I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

  Sylvia Porter

  People, Assumption, Affair

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• In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

  Sylvia Porter

  Paper, Good Enough, Opposition

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