Confidence Quote by Richard Quest

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

— Peter Mandelson

Basically, markets don't like uncertainty.

— Nomi Prins

Investors don't like uncertainty.

— Kenneth Lay

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

— Rick Santelli

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends…

— Philip Roth

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance.…

— Nouriel Roubini

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about…

— George Soros

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk…

— William J. Bernstein

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being…

— William O'Neil

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets…

— Suze Orman

Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market…

— Whitney Tilson

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros