Wong Kar-wai Quotes

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

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Hideous bankruptcy is here ... yet you deliberate .... Is it so magnanimous ... to give a portion of one's revenue to save all of one's possessions?

I have met so many people who had their life savings wiped out, who lost their homes, who are barely back with their heads above water.This was a disaster for our country, and we can never let that happen again.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

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.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

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

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

The government was unable to avert or to control the course of events.

His trade is doomed.