Quotes About Recessions

#1. You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Jamie Dimon

#2. Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

#3. There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

Ken Kaess

#4. You can't wake up looking for the recession.

Jenifer Lewis

#5. Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

Mas Oyama

#6. The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

#7. We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.

Oscar N. Onyema

#8. I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

Sam Walton

#9. Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history

Gordon Brown

#10. The ludicrous fever of toys struggling skyward, the sky itself more and more remote, the wind tearing the awning of cloud to tatters, pale limitless blue and green recessions laced with strands of scud, the light failing - once she would have noticed these things.

Samuel Beckett

#11. How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

Sadiq Khan

#12. A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Amity Shlaes

#13. The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Paul Samuelson

#14. The received wisdom is that risk increases in the recession and falls in booms. In contrast, it may be more helpful to think of risk as increasing during upswings, as financial imbalances build up, and materializing in recessions.

Andrew Crockett

#15. I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Matt Ridley

#16. Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

#18. Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

Aaron Patzer

#19. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

Marianne Williamson

#20. Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

John Ridley

#21. I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

George M. Humphrey

#22. History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

Rachel Nichols

#23. Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.

Oliver DeMille

#24. Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.

Tai

#25. In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

Jesse Ventura

#26. You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Peter Lynch

#27. There's never a recession if you work for the government.

Ann Coulter

#28. Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Mark Cuban

#29. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Warren Buffett

#30. Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Jerry Saltz

#31. He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and vulgar colors.

Gregory Maguire

#32. There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Robert Reich

#33. In the 1990s, economists predicted only 2 of the 60 recessions around the world a year ahead of time.

Nate Silver

#34. In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

Eugene Mirman

#35. There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

Mark Victor Hansen

#36. I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

George Noory

#37. In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#38. Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions.

George Osborne

#39. Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.

Peter D. Schiff

#40. You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

Phil Gramm

#41. Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

Jack Welch