George W. Bush Quotes

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

People look for an edge in an uncertain world.

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle

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

In times of crisis, cash is king.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

People want security in this insecure world.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

You cannot be too certain of anything unless you have it in hand.

If the ... President has much more than a hangnail, the stock market goes crazy.

We will plant our flag on the hill of economic security.

We suffer more … when we fall from a better to a worse situation, than we ever enjoy when we rise from a worse to a better. Security, therefore, is the first and the principal object of prudence.

…in a crisis of confidence and credit, psychology is the big factor.

We’ve got to have some certainty here.

There is nothing really solid at the center of our economic lives. There are only the stories we tell one another, the promises we make, the shared views about the future.

When you have millions of small companies using your site and billions of dollars in transactions every day, the government cares….They care that I can unstabalize the country.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.