America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression. — Jim Gray Copy Share Image
These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“It was the drive-in restaurant, a product of the Great Depression’s crimp on the free-wheeling lifestyle that had grown up around movie-happy… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids,… — Richard M. DeVos Copy Share Image
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“When I was young I wanted to be just like him. One of the charm, of a bright orange smile and muscular… — Larsen Bowker Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“Central to any understanding of stress, health and disease is the concept of adaptiveness. Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee used to be flush with good jobs. But throughout the second half of the twentieth century, bosses in search of cheap… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Making money in the markets is tough. The brilliant trader and investor Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Phoebe Hurty hired me to write copy for ads about teen aged clothes. I had to wear the clothes I praised. That… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and… — Erlend Bakke Copy Share Image
“From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
We've made real progress digging our way out of policies that gave us two wars & the worst economic crisis since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“I looked over at the empty, black windows of the Whites' apartment, windows that were warm and yellow just yesterday, and I… — Jackie French Koller Copy Share Image
We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping. — David Lereah Copy Share Image
We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
