As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake…

— Michael Drayton

In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

— Craig Groeschel

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering…

— Benjamin Franklin

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for…

— Hector Ruiz

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not…

— Lester R. Brown

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may…

— Andrew Weil

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin