Jane Bryant Quinn Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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