"There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you." -- Neil Cavuto
Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.
Cavuto also tapes a nightly wrap up of business news which airs on local FOX affiliates during the late news and has a syndicated radio business news segment that airs on weekday afternoons. He is the senior vice president and managing editor of business news for the Fox Business Network, and oversees content and business coverage.
"A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.""I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.""I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.""I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.""I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.""I want to democratize business news.""I'll rail against what I think is wrong.""I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.""I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.""I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.""I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.""If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!""It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.""It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.""It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.""My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.""Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.""The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.""The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.""The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.""The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.""We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.""We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.""We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.""We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.""Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?"
Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended Immaculate High School. He worked as a White House intern during U.S. president Jimmy Carter's administration, graduated from St. Bonaventure University, and earned a master's degree from American University. His father's family is Italian American and his mother's family is Irish American.
Neil Cavuto became the managing editor of business news and television anchor of Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel in July 1996, later becoming a vice president of business news in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. Your World is Fox's main business news program.
Before joining Fox, he hosted Power Lunch on CNBC and contributed to NBC's Today. He worked with the Public Broadcasting Service for 15 years. He was also a New York City bureau chief.
He has been awarded numerous times by his peers in the journalism industry, including recognition by the Wall Street Journal as the best interviewer in business news, best business television interviewer four consecutive years, and five nominations for Cable ACE awards. Cavuto was also awarded the 1980 Hellinger Award, the highest award for graduating journalism students from Saint. Bonaventure University. Cavuto has Interviewed many high profile business, political and world leaders.
Cavuto is the author of More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life's Ultimate Lesson (ISBN 0-06-009643-8).
Cavuto and his wife, Mary Fulling, whom he married on October 15, 1983, have three children, Tara, Bradley and Jeremy. They reside in Mendham, New Jersey.
Cavuto has suffered health problems, saying, "I don't hide that I have had a tough life in many respects. I fought back a near-life-ending cancer, only to end up with multiple sclerosis years later. Doctors have since told me that the odds of contracting both diseases in the same life are something like two million to one! Yet here I am, marching on, continuing to do my job when doctors who've examined my scans and MRIs tell me I shouldn't be walking or talking."
