Call Quote by Amity Shlaes

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

— Edgar Fiedler

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

— Curtis Jackson

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

— Aaron Patzer

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

There's never a recession if you work for the government.

— Ann Coulter

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it…

— Jim Fowler

Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees.

— Annie Lowrey

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

— Reid Hoffman

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically…

— Jim Talent

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

— Chris O'Dowd

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

— Theo Paphitis