Maria Bartiromo Quotes & Sayings

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently. — Maria Bartiromo

Successful people are always thinking about what they can do to move to the next level. Initiative is the drive to do it - to take the first step, and then the next step. The great thing about initiative - is that it's free and available to everyone. — Maria Bartiromo

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today. — Maria Bartiromo

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. — Maria Bartiromo

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. — Maria Bartiromo

Oil is a very important component of economic growth. — Maria Bartiromo

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock. — Maria Bartiromo

Business news is sexy. — Maria Bartiromo

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock. — Maria Bartiromo

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact. — Maria Bartiromo

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research. — Maria Bartiromo

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. — Maria Bartiromo

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth. — Maria Bartiromo

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. — Maria Bartiromo

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard. — Maria Bartiromo

Even when we're blindfolded, even when you're wearing sunglasses, even in the pitch black of night, we can always tell if you just ogled another woman. — Maria Bartiromo

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely. — Maria Bartiromo

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. — Maria Bartiromo

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. — Maria Bartiromo

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have. — Maria Bartiromo

As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country. — Maria Bartiromo

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. — Maria Bartiromo

First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. — Maria Bartiromo

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are ... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now ... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility. — Maria Bartiromo

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. — Maria Bartiromo

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders. — Maria Bartiromo

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. — Maria Bartiromo