Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.