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
debt minus security
You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.
retirement character challenges
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.
years tomorrow evidence
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.
way facts wealth
It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.
real tickets forget
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.
choices would-be financial
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.
needs
You get the most out of what you need the least.
looks function chiefs
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
real estates said
Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?
brain agents firsts
Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.
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.