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.

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

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

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

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

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

hindsight is not a strategy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Equality is never given, it is taken.

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.

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

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.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.