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We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?

Suze Orman

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Suze Orman
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 5
Author
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Financial Adviser
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Chicago
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We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
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A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.
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People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
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I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.
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Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.
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No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.
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Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.
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Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.
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