Financial Uncertainty Quotes

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

The global economy is unruly.

We can’t even project [budget surpluses and deficits] accurately month-to-month, much less for an entire year.

I am not for buying into financial services firms because I am not sure of the quality.

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

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

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really willing to take.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.

It is impossible, financially and politically, to lower expenditure to the level of our revenues in the calamitous times in which we live, and so, however painful and afflicting the idea may be, we must exist from day to day and simply await the outcome of events yet in the making …

As I found at QPR, a club in the process of a takeover is paralysed.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.