Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass..

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable..

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor..

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town..

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain..

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 nicke….

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….

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

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 eve….

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 at….

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..

hindsight is not a strategy..

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

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

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

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..

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….

Equality is never given, it is taken..

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer..

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brough….

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