Stephen Baldwin Quotes

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

If I find out where every dollar goes, and how it is used, I shall understand the apparatus thoroughly.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

Let’s throw the economists out and use common sense instead.

China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.