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hindsight is not a strategy.
Jane Bryant Quinn / Journalist
Hindsight
Planning
Strategy
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Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.
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Equality is never given, it is taken.
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Given
Taken
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You get the most out of what you need the least.
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Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.
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Election
Political
Should
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Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.
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Money
Bankers
Towns
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Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.
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Bridges
Driving
Tolls
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It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.
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Facts
Sometimes
Way
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The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
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Chiefs
Function
Looks
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Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn / Journalist
Bridges
Justice
Law
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Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn / Journalist
Bridge
Lawyers
Pass
Search
Toll
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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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Claims
Interest
Trying
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Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
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Liberated
Men Women More
Depend
Economically
Women Men More
Pill
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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
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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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Alive
Giving Up
Numbers
Stay Strong
Staying
Date
Rule
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn / Journalist
Funny
Money
Time
Rain
Rainy Day
Unexpected
Arrival
Period
Lies
Minute
Shortest
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You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.
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Debt
Margins
Minus
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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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Estates
Real
Said
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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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Class
Fancy
Real
Working Class
Yield
Properties
Yields
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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
Financial
Would Be
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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 / Journalist
Big Stuff
Cards
Cash
Credit
Sloppy
Smart
Squeezing
Credit Cards
Notice
Onto
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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.
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Evidence
Tomorrow
Years
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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 / Journalist
Money
Two
Want
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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 / Journalist
Forget
Real
Tickets
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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
Clients
Firsts
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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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Challenges
Character
Retirement
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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
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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
Advice
Giving
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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
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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
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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
Home
Flower
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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
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