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Quotes About Boom

We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that.
~ Phil Knight
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
~ Ann Macbeth
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
~ Gary Wolf
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
~ Keith Haring
I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.
~ John Trudell
Capitalism's] newly pugnacious posture, like most forms of aggression, sprang from deep anxiety. If the system became manic, it was because it was latently depressed. What drove this reorganisation above all was the sudden fade-out of the postwar boom.
~ Terry Eagleton
I don't care that I'm taking a chance. I don't care that I may get my heart broken. If I don't at least give this a chance, I'll never be able to live with myself. I love this. I love this because it's funny. I love this because it's silly. I love him, I love him, I love him! And just like that...my heart goes boom.
~ Karyn Bosnak
This kind of herd behaviour can be highly contagious and highly uncertain. And it explains the unpredictability not only of the next chart-topping song but also of next summer's fashion craze—not to mention the 'animal spirits' driving boom and bust in stock markets—revealing the strength of social networks in shaping our preferences, purchases and actions.
~ Kate Raworth
In an economic system not rationally planned for human need, but developing fitfully, chaotically out of the profit motive, there seemed to be no way to avoid recurrent booms and slumps.
~ Howard Zinn
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.
~ George Osborne
Ah, that's better!" Redrought boomed again. In fact, the King only ever seemed to bellow, boom or shout, no matter what his mood. But nobody seemed to mind too much; at least he never had to repeat himself.
~ Stuart Hill
Recession tends to expose a company's competitive weaknesses, although the source of these weaknesses is often the result of management decisions or acts of omission during the previous boom phase.
~ Stuart Slatter
I like Chandrababu Naidu because he is the person who developed the city of Hyderabad and created the software boom. I also like K.T. Rama Rao for his work and the way he helps through Twitter and responds to many causes.
~ Vijay Deverakonda
Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.
~ David Levering Lewis
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Ludwig von Mises
~ Thomas E. Woods
The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
NO! That's not for you! Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.
~ Gene Kim
It was an impulsive at her zenith Zeenat decision to act in 'Boom,' I signed the film after 70 per cent of the movie was done.
~ Zeenat Aman
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
~ J. Paul Getty
His disdain for the contagious fad of blind and comparative tastings of unrelated wines will surely rub some furs the wrong way, as will his indifference to the New-Oak-Cabernet-Sauvignon global boom. Tant mieux Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Kermit Lynch
there is one common theme to the vast range of crises we consider in this book, it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks, corporations, or consumers, often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom.
~ Carmen M. Reinhart
More ships sailed to Melbourne in 1852 than to any other port in the world.
~ George Megalogenis
The boom has not secured social cohesion. Instead, it has encouraged a mass outbreak of social climbing. Deregulation has taught Australians to see their self-worth through bricks-and-mortar and the size of the bribe they can extract from government. Avarice is the new black, and the political system has sanctified it with the term 'aspirational voting'.
~ George Megalogenis
A boom/bust process occurs only when market prices find a way to influence the so-called fundamentals that are supposed to be reflected in market prices.
~ George Soros