Buying Quote by Donella Meadows

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

— Janet Yellen

“Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you're in the depths of a recession, that isn't the time when people want to challenge the system, they're too busy trying to…

— John McDonnell

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

— Theo Paphitis

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately…

— Brooks Stevens

“What causes recessions? Many economists talk about the need for a consumer economy, but we can't have a consumer economy if people can't afford…

— Martin Adams

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for…

— Reid Hoffman

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

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on…

— Matthew Yglesias

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

— Gregg Wallace

In our film business, they say it's recession-proof, but there's no such thing. I think what it's done is there's been an increase in…

— Sandra Bullock

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

— James Dyson