My parents taught me to use a bank savings account when I was very young, and to balance a checking account when I got my first job. I know now they were extremely frugal about some things due to their lives during the depression. When they were in their 60’s and70’s I told them to spend some money and travel – because I was their executor and if they didn’t spend some of their savings then my sister, brother, and I eventually would.
Late in his life, I told my Dad that it was due to his influence that I knew exactly how much I had in my bank, retirement, and investment accounts (I use Quicken, and can update whenever I want). He said he didn’t do that anymore, that he just asked a bank teller to print out his balances. Then he confessed he had way too much money in his checking account and needed to do something about it. By that time he didn’t need to worry about finances at all.
My parents started me on my interest in saving and investing as they were financially savvy. Jonathan and many writers of Humble Dollar continue to have a large influence. It is one of the first sites I read every morning, and I have followed Jonathan since his time at the Wall Street Journal. John Bogle is another. I like straightforward thinking with no hidden agenda to sell me something.
I’ll echo Carmaker Park and say Jonathan; the diversity of voices he’s collected here is unique. And this site led me to Adam Grossman, who is the type of financial advisor that is hard to find—fee only, a good listener, and a believer in “slow and steady.”
Hard to narrow it to one, but I would have to say Burton Malkiel because I got my hands on a copy of Random Walk when I was about thirty and couldn’t put it down. The concept of low cost index fund investing resonated with me and put me on the path to financial independence.
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. Half of my portfolio is in BRK.
My parents taught me to use a bank savings account when I was very young, and to balance a checking account when I got my first job. I know now they were extremely frugal about some things due to their lives during the depression. When they were in their 60’s and70’s I told them to spend some money and travel – because I was their executor and if they didn’t spend some of their savings then my sister, brother, and I eventually would.
Late in his life, I told my Dad that it was due to his influence that I knew exactly how much I had in my bank, retirement, and investment accounts (I use Quicken, and can update whenever I want). He said he didn’t do that anymore, that he just asked a bank teller to print out his balances. Then he confessed he had way too much money in his checking account and needed to do something about it. By that time he didn’t need to worry about finances at all.
My parents started me on my interest in saving and investing as they were financially savvy. Jonathan and many writers of Humble Dollar continue to have a large influence. It is one of the first sites I read every morning, and I have followed Jonathan since his time at the Wall Street Journal. John Bogle is another. I like straightforward thinking with no hidden agenda to sell me something.
I’ll echo Carmaker Park and say Jonathan; the diversity of voices he’s collected here is unique. And this site led me to Adam Grossman, who is the type of financial advisor that is hard to find—fee only, a good listener, and a believer in “slow and steady.”
Hard to narrow it to one, but I would have to say Burton Malkiel because I got my hands on a copy of Random Walk when I was about thirty and couldn’t put it down. The concept of low cost index fund investing resonated with me and put me on the path to financial independence.