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.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

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.

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

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

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

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