Alan Nunnelee Quotes

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

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

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

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

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

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

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.