Mark Zandi Quotes

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.

Do not go out first thing after signing a contract and buy assets that are huge compared to the contract signed. Just because you have money for the first time doesn't mean you have to spend it before you know all the ramifications of buying the assets.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.