Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.