47 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

I was a Girl Scout and I loved being a Girl Scout. I learned so much as a Girl Scout and I used to sell cookies and it was really fun.

We have become a society that trades frequently. Investors often act on every tick in the market without good reason. And that has a major downside.

Often I would go back to my computer and there would be so many items in my in-box that I would be unable to send an e-mail until I deleted them.

I'm frequently on the Internet, digging up information about companies and checking the activities of particular stocks and industry sectors.

Investors need to recognize that not every analyst is dishonest but there are potential conflict-of-interest issues to be aware of.