Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Financial Wisdom in 140 Characters or Less

Distilling your favorite piece of financial wisdom into 140 characters or less can be tricky.

But if you can do it, you'll have likely pared that wisdom to its essence.For Financial Literacy Month (April), personal finance blog GetRichSlowly.org recently asked its Twitter followers to submit their favorite pieces of money wisdom via tweets. Because of the space constraints of Twitter, the wisdom had to be to-the-point, so the result was the character-limited but knowledge-dense bits you see below.If you too would like to share your financial savvy, please join the conversation on the GRS Twitter feed , and while you're there, have a look at the MoneyRates.com feed as well.(Caution: Twitter-specific formatting ahead.) Pick one financial goal to focus on at once. You'll get too overwhelmed if you try to do too many things at once.@TeacHerFinance Always pay yourself first.@Kiplinger Earning your way out of debt is much more effective than trying to save yourself out of debt. Second income...

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