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uncertainty

6 people · 24 quotes · 30 Mar 2015 to 12 Jun 2026

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    1. Howard Marks

      Marks argues investors must not assume likely outcomes will occur, unlike in physical sciences where determinism applies.

      “you should not act as if the things that should happen are the things that will happen. Again, in the world of the physical sciences, you can probably bet that that's true.”

      30 Mar 2015 · Talks at Google · 12:49 · source · permalink
    1. “Even when it's over, you can't tell. Was that a safe investment that it was sure to produce a double? Or was it a risky investment where you got lucky?”

      2 May 2022 · Wharton School · 26:45 · source · permalink
    1. David Tepper

      Tepper says he has no visibility on NVIDIA beyond 2025 into 2026 and 2027.

      “Do you have the next generation models that can take their chip so it looks great in '24, looks great in '25? I have no idea in '26 and '27. I am no idea.”

      26 Sep 2024 · CNBC Television · 0:25 · source · permalink
    2. David Tepper

      Tepper says he doesn't believe his analysts or any analysts on NVIDIA and doesn't trust himself.

      “Okay? I mean, as if I was but I don't believe I don't believe my analysts. I don't believe any analysts. I don't trust myself.”

      26 Sep 2024 · CNBC Television · 0:40 · source · permalink
    1. Brad Gerstner

      Gerstner says CEO uncertainty from tariff negotiations forces real decisions on pricing and supply chains.

      “They gotta make real life decisions about what do I do with prices, what do I do with my supply chain, etcetera.”

      12 Mar 2025 · CNBC Television · 1:43 · source · permalink
    2. Brad Gerstner

      Gerstner explains last four weeks of market decline through rising uncertainty driving up discount rates and risk premiums.

      “So think about what we just talked about. It's all uncertainty. Yeah. When uncertainty goes up, discount rates go up, risk premiums go up, multiples come down, markets come down.”

      12 Mar 2025 · CNBC Television · 2:16 · source · permalink
    3. Brad Gerstner

      Gerstner explains recent market decline as rising uncertainty increasing discount rates and compressing multiples.

      “When uncertainty goes up, discount rates go up, risk premiums go up, multiples come down, markets come down. That's that's the explanation for the last four weeks in the market.”

      12 Mar 2025 · CNBC Television · 2:19 · source · permalink
    4. Gavin Baker

      Baker says no one on earth knows how or why scaling laws for pre-training work, it's an empirical observation.

      “And that's important because no one on planet earth knows how or why scaling laws for pre training work. It's actually not a law.”

      9 Dec 2025 · Invest Like the Best · 6:56 · source · permalink
    5. Howard Marks

      Marks says even when he thinks he is right on market calls he assumes probability is only eighty-twenty.

      “But, you know, in the investment business, even when you're even when you think you're right, you shouldn't assume that it's more than $80.20.”

      13 Dec 2025 · The Investor’s Podcast · 23:17 · source · permalink
    6. Marc Rowan

      Rowan says consulting firms' 2030 energy forecasts are wildly scattered, showing data center equity is a fundamental bet.

      “The fact is if experts looking out not all that far have no idea, we are making a fundamental bet on equity.”

      21 Dec 2025 · Yahoo Finance · 6:34 · source · permalink
    1. Brad Gerstner

      Gerstner describes exponential AI change creating fog of war where investors cannot predict 35 years of cash flows.

      “Fog of war. I can't predict thirty five years into the future of those free cash flows, so I have to pull it in a little bit.”

      6 Feb 2026 · Altimeter Capital · 2:52 · source · permalink
    2. Howard Marks

      Marks cites Dimson saying the future is a probability distribution, not a single outcome that can be predicted.

      “The future is not a set single thing that if you're smart enough, you can figure it out what it's going to be and it's going to materialize and make you right.”

      21 Feb 2026 · The Investor’s Podcast · 26:23 · source · permalink
    3. Howard Marks

      Marks argues the future is a probability distribution of possibilities, not a single predictable outcome.

      “It's a probability distribution. It's a range of possibilities in each thing, whether it's GDP growth next year or inflation next year, or who's going to win the next election,”

      21 Feb 2026 · The Investor’s Podcast · 26:31 · source · permalink
    4. Brad Gerstner

      Gerstner says software stocks are down 30-40% not from missing numbers but from investors seeing cloudier futures.

      “They're all hitting the numbers. But what has happened is their stocks are down 30 or 40% because investors are saying the future is cloudier than it was just a few years ago.”

      2 Mar 2026 · Fox Business · 4:29 · source · permalink
    5. Howard Marks

      Marks argues anyone claiming to know AI's trajectory doesn't understand the situation; we're in the first inning.

      “I would say if you think you know what's gonna happen, you don't know understand what's going on. We're at the we're in the first inning of a very long unpredictable game.”

      5 Mar 2026 · CNBC Television · 3:50 · source · permalink
    6. Howard Marks

      Marks says if you think you know what will happen with AI, you don't understand what's going on.

      “I would say if you think you know what's gonna happen, you don't know understand what's going on.”

      5 Mar 2026 · CNBC Television · 3:50 · source · permalink
    7. Howard Marks

      Marks warns that anyone claiming to know AI's future doesn't understand the situation, comparing it to the first inning.

      “if you think you know what's gonna happen, you don't know understand what's going on. We're at the we're in the first inning”

      5 Mar 2026 · CNBC Television · 3:50 · source · permalink
    8. Howard Marks

      Marks says we're in the first inning of a very long unpredictable AI game with unknown rules.

      “We're at the we're in the first inning of a very long unpredictable game. We don't know what the rules are or or have any idea how many innings there are in the game.”

      5 Mar 2026 · CNBC Television · 3:55 · source · permalink
    9. Howard Marks

      Marks questions whether AI models trained on same history can produce different investment outcomes.

      “Are some AI models smarter than others? Since they all have super IQs, computing power, and they all are trained on the same history, are some smarter than others?”

      4 May 2026 · Nikhil Kamath · 1:32:42 · source · permalink
    10. Howard Marks

      Marks states nobody can specify what AI will do, when, for whom, or how much profit it will produce.

      “I've never heard anybody tell me exactly what AI will be able to do or when or for whom or how much profit it'll produce and for whom.”

      12 Jun 2026 · Prof G Markets · 2:54 · source · permalink
    11. Howard Marks

      Marks calls AI the hardest thing he has ever seen in investing due to enormous uncertainty.

      “This is the hardest thing I think I've ever seen in the investment world because of this enormous degree of uncertainty.”

      12 Jun 2026 · Prof G Markets · 16:04 · source · permalink
    1. John Williams

      Williams states optimal reserve supply under uncertainty is unequivocally higher than without uncertainty when no lending facility exists.

      “Absent a lending facility, the optimal supply of reserves under uncertainty is unequivocally higher than it is without uncertainty.”

      · NY Fed speeches · 11:20 · source · permalink
    2. John Williams

      Williams says high uncertainty can make abundant reserves optimal even when target spread suggests ample reserves region.

      “Indeed, if the uncertainty is great enough, the optimal level of reserves can exceed the cutoff for abundant reserves under no uncertainty.”

      · NY Fed speeches · 12:03 · source · permalink
    3. John Williams

      Williams reiterates his main finding that uncertainty increases optimal reserves without a lending facility.

      “First, absent a lending facility, the optimal supply of reserves under uncertainty is greater than it would be absent uncertainty.”

      · NY Fed speeches · 16:14 · source · permalink

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