Jane Bryant Quinn
Jane Bryant Quinn
Jane Bryant Quinnis an American financial journalist. She is one of the nation's leading commentators on personal finance. Her policy columns have addressed matters of top concern to citizens, including investor protection, health insurance, Social Security, and the sufficiency of retirement plans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
money years yesterday
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.
money two want
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.
money towns bankers
Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.
lawyer
Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.
money saving becoming
Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
planning strategy hindsight
hindsight is not a strategy.
real class yield
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
law bridges justice
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
money average years
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.
funny time money
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
across anyone lawyers operators toll
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
money giving advice
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.
taken given
Equality is never given, it is taken.
smart credit cash
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.