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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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Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

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Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

This book provides practical advice on saving, investing, and making smart financial decisions, tailored to the changing economic landscape. more

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Jane Bryant Quinn

Jane Bryant Quinn is an American journalist born on February 5, 1939. She is renowned for her reporting on personal finance and consumer news, serving as a columnist for 'U.S. News & World Report' and contributing articles to various publications. more

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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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“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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“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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“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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“hindsight is not a strategy.”

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

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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.”

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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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