Wealth & Money Quote by Maria Bartiromo

Bartiromo’s line lands like a scolding, but it’s really a diagnosis of a modern comfort: outsourcing anxiety. The voice is deliberately blunt, built from overheard panic ("I can’t deal with this") into a surrender ("Take my money") and finally a blank-check abdication ("Do what you want"). By stacking those short, spoken phrases, she mimics the emotional arc of retail investing in a volatile market: overwhelm, capitulation, then a kind of moral holiday. The punchline - "That’s the worst attitude you can have" - isn’t just financial advice. It’s an argument about agency.

The subtext is pointed: the financial system doesn’t merely punish ignorance; it rewards indifference from the public because indifference is profitable. A client who won’t ask questions won’t notice fees, won’t interrogate conflicts, won’t demand clarity about risk. "Broker" here carries a faintly old-school whiff of gatekeeping, evoking the era when Wall Street’s power came from information asymmetry and retail investors were expected to stay in their lane. Bartiromo, a business journalist steeped in market culture, is also defending the legitimacy of the system by putting responsibility back on the individual: if you get burned, it’s because you disengaged.

Context matters. This reads as post-2008 muscle memory and a pre-GameStop counterpoint: a media figure telling audiences that passivity is the real hazard, not just market swings. It’s a warning, but it’s also a worldview - autonomy as the only acceptable way to participate in capitalism’s casino.