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Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
Jane Bryant Quinn
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Jane Bryant Quinn
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: February 5
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Niagara Falls
New York
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Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
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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.
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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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Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.
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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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Buy a friend hire a lawyer.
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