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  • Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. -- Ina Garten
  • When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful. -- Carol Bartz
  • I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be. -- Mitt Romney
  • Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. -- John Sununu
  • In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail. -- Jarod Kintz
  • In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon. -- Meg Whitman
  • You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy. -- Dick Cheney
  • Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed. -- Slavenka Drakulic
  • I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue. -- Tom Cole
  • This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
  • A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. -- Christian Siriano
  • If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. -- Barbara Castle
  • Many have wondered if Greece's economy would get so bad that it would eventually break away from the Eurozone - a move that could encourage other countries to follow and therefore splinter the currency union. -- Jens Nordvig
  • It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available. -- Leila Janah
  • Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer. -- Jim Yong Kim
  • Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. -- Josette Sheeran
  • How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. -- Tim Harford
  • Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. -- Russel Honore
  • You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. -- Hillary Clinton
  • It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess. -- Todd Rokita
  • I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy. -- Jim Flaherty
  • Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. -- Tim Harford
  • The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket. -- Jon Lovitz
  • When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate. -- Olivier Theyskens
  • Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day. -- Phil Gramm
  • You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs. -- Wanda Sykes
  • No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action. -- Grant Cardone
  • Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, -- Sharan Burrow
  • A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. -- Charles Wheelan
  • There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones. -- W. Edwards Deming
  • Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet. -- Gillian Flynn
  • In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution. -- Kevin Drum
  • ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it. -- Mitt Romney
  • The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore. -- Jay Leno
  • To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side! -- Jay Leno
  • It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo. -- Dan Quayle
  • Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama's new slogan is 'Spare Change You Can Believe In.' -- Jay Leno
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