1929 Stock Quotes

#1. Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

George Will

#2. He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

Franz Beckenbauer

#3. A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Sylvia Nasar

#4. The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Jeffrey Sachs

#6. In my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

#8. After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

Ron Chernow

#9. I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Gerard Way

#10. The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

Christina Romer

#11. Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.

Greg Laurie

#12. Let the small changes culminate to something grand.

R.V. Johnson

#13. Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Mignon McLaughlin

#14. Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Pola Negri

#15. Overcoming your fears is strength;
overcoming yourself is virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo