Quotes About Downturn

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

As those, for instance, in Ireland celebrate the return to growth (in 2015 it was Europe's fastest growing economy),1 they need to remember: every (or almost every) economy recovers from a downturn.

from 2007 to 2010, median wealth—the wealth of those in the middle—fell by almost 40 percent

Stronger, faster companies can detect and pounce on opportunities, for instance, to take advantage of the downturn by snapping up assets at bargain prices and snatching market share out from under their competitors.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

A fourth way to take control of the downturn is to maximize the cash available to you. Cash is always a good friend to have, especially during the tough times.

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.

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

Anybody can have a dip in form.

Then it dropped 400 points on a single trade.

To the dismay of critics, Standard Oil and other trusts fared quite well during the prolonged downturn.

I don't think it's going to come to that, especially with the fact that we're going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.

doldrums, not only did prices continue to decline

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

No one saw the recession coming.

Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to expand.

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

There are no bloody jobs, Josie. You know that as well as I do. We're in the middle of a bloody recession.