Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

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.

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.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

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.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.