Optimism Quotes

"The market really wants to carry on going up and there is a lot of optimism about this results season. We're not as confident as a lot of others because we think the economic fundamentals are still showing signs of weakness."

"We're back to the wonderful world of optimism. You have to be cautious what you do here. The question is: 'Are we getting ahead of ourselves?'. Will we see some volatility? You bet."

"Cautious optimism, me boy. Cautious optimism."

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

"What we really need is to get back some of the optimism [in the Middle East peace process] we had five years ago and I'm sure there's going to be a change in the climate within a week,"

"There is increasing optimism in the state."

"Everybody knows the second quarter is going to be miserable but there's a sliver of optimism on the part of investors that would hope that the commentary would be geared toward a better scenario."

"There's some optimism available, but obviously it's a competitive market."

"The mood of the market has clearly improved in recent weeks and this most likely reflects optimism that the Fed is close to the end of its recent rate tightening cycle."

"Earnings, by and large, are what investors are hanging their hats on, ... Some earnings improvements have prompted some optimism, but we'll know more about that next week."

"I don't think there is more or less [optimism about Brooks' prospects for playing in the opener], ... It is what it is. He is continuing to work, and he continues to do more, and that's better than doing less."

"There's not as much economic optimism as might be warranted by hard economic indicators."

"Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!"

"An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white."

"a level of optimism that was not dented as much as one would have expected by Hurricane Katrina."

"I think there was a lot of optimism built into the market that a soft landing is coming and the Fed will be easing. The decline in the unemployment rate cast doubt on that scenario happening. The Fed continues to be concerned about the potential for inflation if labor markets remain very tight."

"The Fed's kind of locked into this cautious optimism mode. Everybody there has the same line about how once geopolitical risks abate things will get better."

"There is a new cautious optimism emerging in the industry. Improved economic prospects in Europe and Asia, combined with an improving situation in the US, will lead to reduced losses in 2006 and strengthened profitability in 2007. While the trend is positive, we are nowhere near sustainability."

"I get worried about so much optimism and the fact that the market is overvalued,"

"There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side."