Sylvia Field Porter, 1913 - 1991
Time magazine cover (28 November 1960)
Born: 18 June 1913, Patchogue, New York
Died: 5 June 1991, Pound Ridge, New York
Biography from Wikipedia
Sylvia Porter quotes:
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- Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. permalink
Sylvia Porter - I am not and should not be considered an economist. permalink
Sylvia Porter - I discovered that I could write about this financial stuff. permalink
Sylvia Porter - I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there. permalink
Sylvia Porter - I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them. permalink
Sylvia Porter - I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity. permalink
Sylvia Porter - In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.' permalink
Sylvia Porter - Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better. permalink
Sylvia Porter - It took a while for the pinch to really hurt but when the roof fell in, I was appalled — and fascinated. How could something like that happen? How could so much money just disappear? I was damned curious. permalink
Sylvia Porter - on the 1929 stock market crash - Let's face it, it's not deathless prose. Sometimes I look at all that stuff and say, 'How am I getting away with it?' But it was the best I could do that day. permalink
Sylvia Porter - Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It also can be translated into a source of bitterness. permalink
Sylvia Porter - One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics — a profession which is still far more an art than a science — is that whatever is to happen is happening already. permalink
Sylvia Porter - speech to the Economic Club, Detroit (November 1960) - The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. permalink
Sylvia Porter - The point is the winning, the achievement. Being there didn't matter. I had no compulsion to say, 'Look at me.' permalink
Sylvia Porter - on skipping college graduation - There are two ways of looking at today's economic society. One is to preserve what you have. The other is to say, 'This won't do at all.' In recent years, we've only been protecting. You can't have a dynamic society and sit. We are supposed to have a competitive system. We're just paying lip service to it if we start crying tears when it is competitive. Let's be competitive. permalink
Sylvia Porter
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