We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.