In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.
You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.
Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
No one saw the recession coming.
There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.
I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.
There's never a recession if you work for the government.
Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.
During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.
I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.
We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.
You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
