Peter Brimelow Quotes

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

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.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

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.

When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.

At 19 I was lucky enough to start making money from my music career, and when I was in my early twenties I trusted financial experts and advisers to guide me with how I invested money.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

I have millions of dollars, and I don't know finance. I've had some bad things happen in my career. I've got to educate myself. I sit down with my finance guy once a month and go over everything, line by line.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.

You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

Personally, I had made a good amount of dough for a 30-year-old guy, but I didn't know a thing about money. I'm not a dumb guy, but I couldn't figure them out.

I'm not a money guy.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.