You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.
Those who own much have much to fear.
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.