Quotes About Bust

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.

The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the kind of blue-eyed blondness that caused complete strangers to deduct IQ points and to speak to her slowly. Using really small words.

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

I decided I could lose nothing by the soft approach. If that didn't produce for me—and I didn't think it would—nature could take its course and we could bust up the furniture.

the most profitable thing we can learn from the history of booms and busts is that at times of great optimism, future returns are lowest; when things look bleakest, future returns are highest. Since risk and return are just different sides of the same coin, it cannot be any other way.

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.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

A bronze bust of some dictator or other, who had gone by the name of "Trump.

Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

The chemicals were both highly flammable and highly toxic, and more than one inexpert bust had ended in conflagration.

Is there any proof that I'm a bust? All there is proof of is that I have bad luck with injuries.

Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.

There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

we may see another speculative buildup followed by another crash, and so on until God makes people less greedy.

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.

As 'Austrian' business cycle theory has pointed out, any bank credit inflation sets up conditions for boom-and-bust; there is no need for prices actually to rise.