Quotes About Bust

It was sitting there under a gift-shop bust of Socrates, the inventor of mansplaining.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

Roetown, of mixed economy, neither boom nor bust, just ordinary times — that is, hard — had a slightly run-down aspect, I suppose. But in a pleasing way, like a man you love who has buttoned his coat up wrong.

the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.