The two great commandments of personal finance are to increase your income and decrease your expenses. Frugality is the fundamental principle behind the second. There are innumerable specific tips, hacks, and bargains - and more being created every day. You could numb your mind trying to fill it with each tidbit, but there is [...]

Someone recently passed me along a copy of “The Automatic Millionaire” by David Bach. I was completely prepared for it to be just another rehash of the ideas in “The Richest Man In Babylon,” but I was pleasantly surprised.
Not that rehashing those ideas is bad, mind you. I believe concepts like paying yourself first and [...]

Benjamin Franklin achieved financial success at a very young age. When he gave financial advice, he was not just spouting theory, but speaking from experience.
In his book, The Way To Wealth, we read:

Friends, says he, and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones [...]