The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

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.

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