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Recessions are great because they unlock the best people. -- Aaron Patzer
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Mark Cuban
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal. -- Matt Ridley
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. -- Robert Reich
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. -- Peter Lynch
Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year. -- John Ridley
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust. -- Rachel Nichols
In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier. -- Jesse Ventura
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women. -- Jerry Saltz
I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. -- George Noory
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. -- Warren Buffett
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem. -- Amity Shlaes
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. -- James Grant
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. -- Paul Samuelson
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions. -- Marianne Williamson
There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. -- Ken Kaess
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history -- Gordon Brown
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.' -- Eugene Mirman
Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality. -- Oliver DeMille

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