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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
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.
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.
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.
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
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.
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.
