Downturn Quotes

• High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  Major Owens

  Income, Fuel, Gasoline

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• Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

  Donald Trump

  Cleanliness, Realtors, Majors

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

  Douglas Leone

  Communication, Keys, Strategy

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• The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

  Robert Teeter

  Travel, Political, President

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• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Politics

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Bulls, Crash

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• This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Typical, Usual

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

  Roger Mahony

  Spiritual, California, One Day

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• A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Long, Management

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• Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

  Denis Waitley

  Successful, Pie, Numbers

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• Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

  Martha McSally

  Ideas, Economic, Taxes

  Martha McSally during the Congressional District 2 Forum at the University of Arizona, www.azpm.org. October 25, 2012.

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Recipes

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• Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mean, Discipline, Good Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Opportunity, Giving, Diversity

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• If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "Coal mining essential for Central Queensland jobs: Brandis". "AM" with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. June 21, 2016.

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• Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

  Lily Allen

  Artist, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Opportunity, Cinema

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, States, Enjoy

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.

  Tom Wolf

  Impact, Mathematical, Taxes

  Source: www.eriereader.com

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• There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Believe, Mad

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• The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Home, Parent, Events

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.

  Jamie Dimon

  Clients, Serving

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Economic, Catalyst

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• A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

  Chaz Bufe

  Peace, War, Election Years

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