Quotes of Recession - somelinesforyou

“ The last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ If we can 'boondoggle' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much. ”

- George H. Bush

“ We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much. ”

- George Bush

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

- Ronald Reagan

“ I've enjoyed my retirement. ”

- Darrell Royal

“ I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. ”

- Bill Gates

“ Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. ”

- Robert Brault

“ It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ”

- Harry S.Truman

“ Recession is when a neighbour 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. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ So-called "austerity," the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. "Pull in your belt" is a slogan closely related to "gird up your loins," or the guns-butter metaphor. ”

- Wyndham Lewis
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