Recessions Quotes

• A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur

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• These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Looks

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• 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

  Investing, Investment, Decline

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• The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Quality, Make Or Break, Journalism

  "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• 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

  Business, Military, War

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Technology, People

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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• 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

  Fickle, Economic, Good And Bad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

  Stephen Harper

  Economy, Bigs, Exporting

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

  Michael Symon

  Jobs, Cutting, Iron

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• I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Self, People

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Saws

  "Gordon Ramsay: 'I was a crazy psycho'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

  Ben Bernanke

  Jobs, Home, Growth

  "Bernanke Says Fed to Keep Rates Low After Economy Strengthens". www.businessinsider.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Boards, Double Standard

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• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  Warren Buffett

  Stills

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• I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Important, Capacity

  "Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 22, 2010.

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• So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the - the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

  George W. Bush

  Country, Taken, Hands

  "My Interview with George W. Bush". Interview with Kudlow Report, www.nationalreview.com. November 23, 2010.

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• You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

  David Cameron

  Trying, Cost, Economist

  "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

  Eric Cantor

  Jobs, Creating, Needs

  "Key Republican Lawmakers on GOP Agenda for New Congress". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2010.

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• When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Want, Democrat

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• In these times of the "Great Recession", we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

  Mark Cuban

  Patriotic, People, Trying

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  Rahm Emanuel

  War, Two, Fixing

  "Rahm Emanuel Speech At 2012 Democratic Convention: ‘Which Crisis First?’" by Sabrina Siddiqui, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Bankers, Delighted

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

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