Market Decline Quotes

#1. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

Peter Lynch

#2. In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

Carol Loomis

#3. A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

Alan Greenspan

#4. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Joseph Barbera

#5. I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

Claire Cameron

#6. The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Carl Jung

#7. There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing - somehow - not to give up.

Gregory Maguire

#8. I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

Peter Lynch

#9. I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

Erica Jong

#10. Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.

Benjamin Graham

#11. We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

Lakshmi Mittal

#12. While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Jasmine Guinness

#13. All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

Larry Ellison

#14. The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Irving Fisher

#15. Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt ... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Fujio Mitarai

#16. In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.

George Akerlof

#17. I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Penelope Spheeris

#18. A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Nathaniel Branden

#19. Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

Alan Sugar

#20. You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.

Kwame Alexander