Jane Bryant Quinn

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character,…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Equality is never given, it is taken.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity.…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn