Katherine Mansfield Quotes

In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you've got to keep with it.

The idea of a family sitting round the kitchen table and carefully planning their future family size based on the certainty of years to come is a complete fantasy. Back in the real world, jobs are lost, livelihoods taken away, families break apart, partners leave or pass away.

People are, you know, a little - they're still uncertain, and they're uncertain both because they don't know what might come next in terms of regulations, but they're also uncertain because of changes in a global economy that we're only beginning to take hold of.

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial crisis; it's anxiety about inequality and about computers replacing jobs.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

One day you are on the top, the other day you're on the bottom. That's how it works.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.