Financial crisis Quotes

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you.

— Jamie Dimon

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

— Howard Schultz

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

— Bill Vaughan

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

— John Cusack

“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role…

— Michael Lewis

“Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.”

— Michael Robotham

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

— Steve Mnuchin

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

— Sheldon Richman

“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets.…

— Barack Obama

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

— Lee Hsien Loong

Dodd-Frank has disproportionately burdened community banks, despite their having no role in the financial crisis.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

“The secret of financial breakthroughs: Pay ten percent of any income you receive to God(tithe)and saving ten percent of your income as…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended…

— Alan M. Taylor

The Cyprus Financial Crisis was a devastating blow to Cypriots and halted their banking system. Banks closed for two weeks to prevent…

— Perianne Boring

Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite…

— Chris Hayes

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The…

— Martin Rees

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further…

— Glenn Hubbard

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going…

— Rich Lowry

The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we…

— Bernard Stiegler

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“There are only a handful of countries that have experienced what Indonesia has endured: financial crisis, political instability, separatism, ethnic conflicts, terrorism…

— SBYudhoyono

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than…

— Vince Cable

The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and…

— Kevin Brady

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11.…

— Thomas Friedman

As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive…

— Fareed Zakaria

Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take…

— Seth Klarman

“A lot has changed since Copenhagen, however, which is why many big energy companies are paying close attention to the Paris talks.…

— Anonymous

“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions.…

— Elizabeth Warren

“My search for professional/personal harmony led me down the path of asking the wrong question. The question isn’t, “What can I give…

— Trong Nguyen

“Universities use their endowments to finance a range of activities, from scholarships to building projects. Harvard has promised to use its financial…

— Anonymous

“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Human nature tends to turn negative in difficult times. But the Scripture tells us to do just the opposite: “Count it all…

— Joel Osteen

“At the G-20 meeting in Paris in 2011, finance ministers expressed fears that U.S.-driven global inflation was threatening global stability. George Melloan…

— Steve Forbes

“The Fed is still on the same track.” Whatever you call it, the benign economic environment has supported a bull market since…

— Anonymous

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

— Benigno Aquino III

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles…

— Don Cheadle

Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis.

— Barack Obama