Recession Quotes · Page 2

With the recession, people are having to choose between their cable and their internet connection. And think about it.

— Rosario Dawson

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

— Warren Buffett

After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs.

— Barack Obama

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy…

— Cher

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession…

— Amity Shlaes

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Stephen Harper

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a…

— R. A. Salvatore

They always say that the entertainment and restaurant industries are the only businesses that don't sink during a depression or a recession.…

— Chris Cornell

“What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can…

— Michael Lewis

“Recession, and Wolf seems to have devoured them all for The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--From…

— Anonymous

“You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile…

— Jen Lancaster

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system…

— Seth Moulton

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris,…

— Gordon Ramsay

There are two things that happen when there is a recession. One, more people watch telly and two, people buy more raw…

— Gregg Wallace

Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a…

— Mark Zandi

We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can…

— John Key

“We are headed for a much morse financial crisis than the one we experienced in '08 [2008] and we are headed for…

— Peter Schiff

Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more…

— Mary Pilon

Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had…

— Barack Obama

“By early 2005 all the big Wall Street investment banks were deep into the subprime game. Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs,…

— Michael Lewis

Lunchroom economic conversations are inevitably graced with at least one statement from an old-timer along the lines of, 'In my day, we…

— Kevin Hassett

UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours…

— Lester Holt

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

— Ha-Joon Chang

The United States came into the coronavirus recession with a few structural advantages, including a highly diversified economy.

— Annie Lowrey

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

— Caroline Lucas

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

— Trish Regan

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.

— Pete Sessions

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

— Peter Welch

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

— Daniel Hannan

Recession leads to depression, from our obsession, of what was once our possession

— Anonymous

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

— Mitt Romney

“saving a year’s worth of expenses will provide a sufficient buffer to weather nearly any recession.”

— Anonymous

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

— Pete Sessions

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

— Janet Yellen

History has shown that even in a recession, consumers go to shows.

— Michael Rapino

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

— Michael Mina

“If war is gods way of teaching geography to Americans, then recession is his way of teaching little economics to everyone”

— Raj Patel