Nicholas Brady Quotes

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

This great country cannot be permanently kept in a state of relapse. I believe we will reoccupy the field temporarily lost to us, and go out to the peaceful conquest of new and greater fields of trade and commerce. The recovery will come slowly, perhaps, but it will come, and when it does we will be steadier and will better know how to avoid exposure hereafter.

We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism …. The economic problem may be solved, or at least be in sight of a solution, within a hundred years.

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

A recession is when a neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

Not having a country with a financial crisis in the year is a pretty big deal to me. But something that didn’t happen is not something that people will focus on.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Bad nights lead to better days

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.