Chris Gethard Quotes

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Math - it's not my best subject.

I just am not good at math.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

Only 18 percent of American adults can calculate how much a carpet will cost if they know the size of the room and the per-yard price of the carpet.

Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging their worldly affairs than make friends with numbers.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.

I'm not good at math.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.