Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community.

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.

The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

If anything could revolt our citizens against the war, it would be the extravagance with which they are about to be taxed ….

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

The people that buy music might not be able to afford to buy music. It might not even be a situation where people don't want to buy your stuff. It might be a situation where they can't afford to buy it because food prices are too high. I can respect that.

A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?