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
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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 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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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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Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
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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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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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Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.
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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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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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Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.
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You get the most out of what you need the least.
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The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.