Suze Orman
Suze Orman
Susan Lynn "Suze" Ormanis an American author, financial advisor, motivational speaker, and television host. Orman was born in Chicago and pursued a degree in social work. She worked as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch. In 1983 she became the vice-president of investments at Prudential Bache Securities. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her program The Suze Orman Show began airing on CNBC in 2002. In 2006 she won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Program Host on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 June 1951
CountryUnited States of America
Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.
Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.
What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.
Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.
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The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining.
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.
You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.
Raise your auto and home deductibles to $1,000 or more, and your premium cost falls at least 10 percent.
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.