Bottom line Quote by Alan Patricof

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

— Anand Mahindra

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them…

— Robert J. Shiller

Poor businesses worry about their competitors. Good businesses worry about their customers. Great businesses worry about their employees.

— Alexander Den Heijer

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

— Virginia Postrel

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

— Richard Quest

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They…

— Jeb Bush

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

— Jason Chaffetz

“Optimistic bias leads people to neglect probabilities of success, overestimate their ability and level of control, and downplay the influence of luck and external…

— Sumoreads

The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that…

— Jerome Powell

Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up…

— Tony Hsieh

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get…

— Robert Reich

Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth.…

— Robert Kiyosaki