Barry Diller Quotes

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

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

I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

It’s very difficult to find out what’s going on in the economy even when its happening.

I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the outcome he predicted yesterday did not happen today.

Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

Most important downside risks to the economy are political

We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

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

Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris.