Rose Schneiderman Quotes

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Better to be screwed physically than financially.

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.