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When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

Suze Orman

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Suze Orman
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 5
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Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.
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For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.
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If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.
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The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.
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Every morning I wake up, I can't even wait to go and see what life can I change today. It doesn't have to be a lot of lives, but I can change one life a little bit here, a little bit there, and I hope that everything I create, people know that.
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I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.
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America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being, they are falling on deaf ears.
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I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.
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Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.
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A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
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