Always Quote by Robin Marantz Henig

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

— Walter Wriston

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind…

— Owen Wilson

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets…

— Suze Orman

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

— Chris Fussell

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

— Warren Buffett

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them…

— Robert J. Shiller

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

— Warren Buffett

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us…

— Gary Snyder

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday…

— Eugene H. Peterson