Gary Shteyngart Quotes

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

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.

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

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

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'

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.

Money is a hazard.

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

The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.