Downturn Quotes

• High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  Major Owens

  Income, Fuel, Gasoline

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• Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

  Donald Trump

  Cleanliness, Realtors, Majors

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

  Douglas Leone

  Communication, Keys, Strategy

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• This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Typical, Usual

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Bulls, Crash

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• Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

  Roger Mahony

  Spiritual, California, One Day

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• The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

  Robert Teeter

  Travel, Political, President

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• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Politics

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Long, Management

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• Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

  Denis Waitley

  Successful, Pie, Numbers

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• Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

  Martha McSally

  Ideas, Economic, Taxes

  Martha McSally during the Congressional District 2 Forum at the University of Arizona, www.azpm.org. October 25, 2012.

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Recipes

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• Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

  Lily Allen

  Artist, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mean, Discipline, Good Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Opportunity, Giving, Diversity

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• If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "Coal mining essential for Central Queensland jobs: Brandis". "AM" with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. June 21, 2016.

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• We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of this downturn and position yourself for the next boom that's going to follow.

  Harry S. Dent

  Wind, Next, Individual

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• The ad industry isn't struggling for a new set of principles or abandoning the ones that made it great from the start. It's simply in the midst of a business cycle. I don't think it's more profound than that. And despite the economic downturn, I'm having more fun today than at any other moment in my 30-year advertising career. The game is more interesting and more relevant than ever.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Perfect

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

  Phil Harding

  Continuing On, Humanity, Being Positive

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• With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.

  Joe Staton

  Business, Skills, Accomplishment

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• Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

  Chip Conley

  People, Curiosity, Resilience

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they] may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience

  Brooksley Born

  Thinking, Details, May

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• We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.

  Jamie Dimon

  Clients, Serving

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

  Harry S. Dent

  Real, Smart, Opportunity

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