Linda Lingle Quotes

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I have always been afraid of banks.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I worry about the world.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribution to your 401(k); a snapshot of your child in a college sweatshirt can encourage you to put more into a 529 college savings plan.

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.