Catherine Crook de Camp Quotes

United States, Author
November 6, 1907 – April, 9, 2000.

Catherine Crook de Camp was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. Most of her work was done in collaboration with her husband L. Sprague de Camp, to whom she was married for sixty years. Her solo work was largely non-fiction.

Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

Catherine Crook de Camp
- Dream
- President
- Fool
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

Catherine Crook de Camp
- Money
- Goal
- Exercise

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

Catherine Crook de Camp
- Earth
- Sea
- Sky
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

Catherine Crook de Camp
- Horse
- Individual
- Affair
On retirement savings: Gone today, here tomorrow.

Catherine Crook de Camp
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

Catherine Crook de Camp
- Care
- Given
- Standards
The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.

Catherine Crook de Camp